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Seniors, foreign caregivers, families, institutions: Linguistic and multidisciplinary perspectives
No full textDiscriminaging. Discourses of health discrimination based on age
No full textThis special issue of Journal of Language and Discrimination brings together research on how people can be and are discriminated in the health and medical fields based on their age, and how such bias emerges linguistically from the discourse(s) expressing or surrounding it
Ageing issues, ethics and ideology: discursive representations in the media and in the professions
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‘Meat gives you cancer’. The popularisation of scientific news with public health relevance
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Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies
No full textThis volume is a collection of studies dealing with age or, rather, ages,
mainly from a linguistic viewpoint, but also accommodating inputs
from other disciplinary perspectives. In detail, it aims to focus on the
linguistic, social, economic and ethical aspects of social groups defined
in terms of age – which clearly includes seniors but, as shall be seen, is
not limited to that. It thus offers a comparison of different age- related
communication strategies, in order to share knowledge about them. The editorial project behind this collection stems from the interuniversity
research project ‘Age.Vol.A. (Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants.
Multilingual tools for assisting the ageing)’, funded by the Cariplo
Foundation for the years 2018– 2022 (ref. code: 2017- 0950), aimed at
easing or removing the linguistic and cultural barriers existing between
home- assisted Italian seniors and their non- Italian caregivers – a widespread
social phenomenon in Italy – through multilingual digital tools
and applications
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