Language Development: The lifespan perspective
Edited by Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 37] 2015. vii, 233 pp.
Annette Gerstenberg
List of John Benjamins publications for which Annette Gerstenberg plays a role.
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Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2024 “That was a long time ago”: Memory work spanning the arc from normal healthy aging to cognitive impairment Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 33–48 | Article
The paper contributes to ongoing research on memory work with a focus on “memory work markers” (mwm), affirmative and negative constructions with first person singular verbs such as ‘I remember’ and ‘I know’. We observe them in a longitudinal approach, based on a hexagonal French corpus of… read more
2023 Older adults’ conversations and the emergence of “narrative crystals”: A new approach to frequently told stories Narrative Inquiry 33:1, pp. 27–60 | Article
Energized by seminal scholarship within narrative studies; communication studies of aging and dementia; and formulaic language, we examined a wide range of stories told multiple times within two different longitudinal collections of verbal interactions involving two women in their 80s (one US… read more
2021 A Grammar of Authority? Directive speech acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period… read more
2019 Generational styles in oral storytelling: What can be learned from narrative priming? Narrative Inquiry 29:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We… read more
2015 A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of older adults Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 109–128 | Article
Vocabulary richness is known to either stay stable or increase into old age. The sociolinguistic aspects of related phenomena have not been studied intensely until now. We analyse a corpus of spoken French in two series of interviews, guided in 2005 and 2012, with 28 participants living their later… read more
2015 Investigating the lifespan perspective Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article