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How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging: Changing Minds
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Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language—and how language affects aging. Kreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be changes in an older person’s language ability are actually produced by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and perception. Some language abilities, including vocabulary size and writing ability, may even improve with age. And certain language activities—including reading fiction and engaging in conversation—may even help us live fuller and healthier lives.Kreuz and Roberts explain the cognitive processes underlying our language ability, exploring in particular how changes in these processes lead to changes in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They consider, among other things, the inability to produce a word that’s on the tip of your tongue—and suggest that the increasing incidence of this with age may be the result of a surfeit of world knowledge. For example, older people can be better storytellers, and (something to remember at a family reunion) their perceived tendency toward off-topic verbosity may actually reflect communicative goals.
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| Weight | 0.31 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.94 × 12.7 × 19.54 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Year Published | 2020-12-8 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0262539586 |
| About The Author | Roger Kreuz is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is the coauthor (with Richard Roberts) of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, and Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging (all published by the MIT Press).Richard Roberts is a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the Public Affairs Officer at the US Consulate General in Okinawa, Japan. He is the coauthor (with Roger Kreuz) of of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language and Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, both published by the MIT Press. |
"Changing Minds provides a clear understanding of the connection between aging and language. Most importantly, it provides sets of practices that can help you harness the power of language to live longer and better." – Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest "Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts have done it again — and made it look easy! Their new book, Changing Minds, is a superbly written and highly accessible overview of a neglected topic, namely, how aging affects a person’s ability to communicate through language. Anyone who is getting older or who interacts with anyone who is getting older — and, of course, this is everyone — should read this fun and informative book." – John Kounios, coauthor of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain; Professor of Psychology, Drexel University "From the first page, I found myself reading this book with the same care and enthusiasm as I would a novel. It is a well-researched, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating exploration into how we use words and how language becomes us as we age. It goes beyond the structure of language and language acquisition and change and instead gives a rich cultural context necessary to appreciate the complexity of language." – Kate de Medeiros, O’Toole Family Professor, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Ohio |
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| Table Of Content | Acknowledgments Prologue: How Aging Affects Language . . . and How Language Affects Aging Chapter 1: Setting the Stage Language by Design Comparing Apples to Oranges Components of Cognition The Compensation of Language Chapter 2: The Language of Sight and Sound Do You Hear What I See? A Look at Hearing Tinnitus Voice Quality Speaking of Vision Presbyopia Making Sense of Feelings Chapter 3: The Story of Speech Word Finding Word Naming Speech Disfluency Stuttering Aphasia Dyslexia Foreign Accent Syndrome Chapter 4: Word Domination Stressed Out Spelling Ability Vocabulary Size Verbal Fluency Grammatical Complexity Off-Topic Verbosity Telling Stories Chapter 5: Using Language Pragmatic Competence Nonliteral Language Can Spring Chickens Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? Elderspeak Living with More Than One Language The Benefits of Bilingualism? Chapter 6: The Write Stuff Healing Through Language Reminiscing Late Bloomers Writer's Block The Destroyer of Minds Lessons from the Nuns Fiction is Stronger Than Truth Epilogue About the Authors References |
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