The fifteenth episode of Inclusioni, the podcast channel of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona, is now available online on the main platforms. “Dire la vieillesse aujourd’hui: perspectives interculturelles” is also the first episode in French and addresses “gerontolanguage,” that is, the language of older people.
What are the specific features of the language used by older people and by those who interact with them for professional or family reasons? How can this phenomenon—of growing relevance in light of population aging—be studied today? In conversation with Giovanni Tallarico, our lecturer in French Language and in Language, Translation, and French Linguistics, are Weiwei Guo and Corina Veleanu from Université Lumière Lyon 2, and Denis Jamet-Coupé and Christian Cote from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Together, they will present their multilingual research in this field—in Chinese, English, and French—and we will discover why a multidisciplinary approach is necessary, one that combines linguistics, semiotics, and digital humanities to investigate how different cultures shape caregiving interactions.
Enjoy listening!