Language, Aging, and Health
Syllabus for UNCC students in
Syllabus
for NKNU students will be linked in March
Email: bdavis@email.uncc.edu and boydhdavis@yahoo.com
Powerpoints
and handouts are linked by class meeting and highlighted.
Texts
·
Nussbaum,
J., L. Pecchioni, J. Robinson & T. Thompson.
(2000). Communication and Aging. 2nd
Edn.
·
Articles
and media on reserve (electronic or paper) [US and ROC]; buy or borrow inexpensive online microphone (borrow
earphones if doing this in on-campus lab)
Unique Feature
Should we
use or avoid a simplified speech register (Elderspeak) when speaking to older
people?
What are the changes in our language
as we age? This class gives an overview
of the literature on language and aging, including
impaired language, with a focus on enhancing communication as part of caregiving. The first half of
the course will be face-to-face; the second half will be online, when you will partner with students in
Face-to-face Format
·
presentations
each class by instructor
o
ppts keyed to articles and chapters;
o
media
when available and feasible
·
interactions
and small group work keyed to ‘labs’
·
graduate
student reports: research review keyed to articles/chapters
Online Format
·
the
same, except via CENTRA – we’ll practice together
Methodologies and Themes
·
conversation
analysis
·
discourse
analysis
·
pragmatics
and speech acts
·
interactional
sociolinguistics
♠ crosscultural politeness: ethnicity/gender
♠ crosscultural aging
♠ metaphor and creativity
♠ corpora and media
Expectations and Grading (each
individual item is 10%)
·
8
‘letters/labs’ – posted in CENTRA - 4 small group reading reports and 4
individual analyses (expected: 2 pages UG, 3 pages G), with associated online
interactions.
o
narrative,
o
vocabulary,
o
metaphor,
o
materials-review
·
1
mid-term – a take home, open-book essay in which you select and discuss
o
10
key terms from opening chapters
o
relation
of terms to your chosen discipline/major/work/interests
·
1
exam – short powerpoint (low graphics) in which you
present your discussion of possible intervention(s) from your chosen
perspective, keyed to some aspect of language, discourse, and dementia or other
disorder
Metaphor
analysis: small groups will transcribe and analyze metaphor in 2-minute audio
recording
Narrative:
using any of several techniques, analyze story-structure in transcribed
collaborative stories
Corpora:
we’ll draw on our expanding collection of normally aging and impaired adult
narrative, and illustrate ways to create activities, teaching materials,
training, interventions, and the like
Jan 9 Ppt1 1
Language in the brain and across the lifespan ch 1 *Harwood,* Minnie Evans, *The Mind,*The
Brain, *OvidTable [* means instructor does it]
16 Martin
Luther King Holiday
23 Ppt2 2
Language and aging: ageism and attitudes ch 2 and *Ryan XCult Ca-Asia
30 Ch 3 3
Language and aging: relational considerations ch 3
Politeness. Centra lab
Strategies of Involvement and Independence
Feb 6 Ch4/5 4
Language and aging: projections and portrayals ch 4-5
*Grand Rounds
13 Ch6-7,10 5
Language and aging: work, play and movement ch 6-7,
10 *
Begin thinking whether
you will collect/transcribe/analyze 1 conversation or edit 2 (see what’s due March 27)
Feb 20
Agenda 6
Language and aging: aging in the family ch 8-9 Filmfest:
smallgrp review
27 7
BEGIN in your YAHOO groups by writing
self-intro and reflection on The Pragmatics of Letter-Writing and
(Hondo01)Cross Cultural Varieties of Politeness
[electronic reserve,
library] Individual
March 6 Spring
Break, UNCC [I’ll use this week to set up XCult logistics
with NKNU]
13 centra 8 RESPOND on YAHOO to letter YOU/YOUR
GROUP receives and for CENTRA,
be ready to post text or ppt summary of Language and
aging: barriers and health issues
ch 11, 12 Small
Group
Individual: Midterm
20 CENTRA 9
Aging in
. SET UP how your group will do your
metaphor analyses: On reserve: 3 CDs from the Proverb Project (see main webpage) . Group 1, Group 2, Group 3.
Group 4 will use Group
2 CD. Group 5 will use the Group 1 CD
and Group 6 will use the Group 3 CD.
27 centra 10 Language and aging: narrative and
reminiscence ALL Coelho Story Grammar, Quilting, MoreReminisROC,
G adds ReminisTaiwan.
Read answers from ROC.
DUE Individual conversation: video/audio reminiscence
analysis
April 3 CENTRA 11 Language and aging: creativity and
metaphor ALL Lakoff (on
reserve), pp 4-first half of 11 carefully, either Metaphor Lessons OR Nosal on
Narrative 05, G add Wray, review
of Dilin Liu. Individual
Analysis of story in selected conversational narrative in
reply to ROC
10 centra 12
Language, culture, aging: ART PecchioniOta&Sparks Cult Issues Interactional
Approaches in G&M,
Send Small Group metaphor analyses and read ROC answers
On
reserve: 4 CDs from the Proverb Project (see main webpage) .
Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4. Group 5 will use
Group 1 and Group 6 will use Group 3 CDs
17 CENTRA 13 Language disorders ALL KemplerPragmatic
Deficits, Coelho, Prag inSLP03, CogImpairSoTaiwan;
Small Group Review of
Materials
24 centra 14 Language, discourse, dementia: ART, WangReminis-Taiwan, and Coupland
Grad research review ArkinMahendra01, MaclaganDavisLunsford06
We will schedule this TBA to accommodate your
end-of-semester crunch
May 1 15
Interventions ART Mahendra, SocWk&Aging,
Dijkstra, Cosentino-Ryan
examTBA CENTRA
- Individual
powerpoints
[ROC
students continue with Seminar focusing on Language & Teaching: Corpus,
Lexis and Writing in Science & Medicine, and with
Language and Culture class looking at cross-cultural accommodation strategies]