{"title":"Der Kalenderbucheintrag als kommunikative Praktik älterer Schreiber/-innen","authors":"Diana Walther","doi":"10.1515/ZFAL-2019-2017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although some research on the spoken language and conversational behaviour of older people was conducted in Germany between the late 1990 s and the middle of the noughties, the interest in this field seems to have decreased over the last ten years with studies focusing on written texts produced by older people being virtually non-existent. In contrast to the German-speaking context, Anglo-American research on writing by older adults has flourished since the late 1980 s. This study therefore aims to close a research gap by focusing on writing in German in old(er) age and discusses the specific text genre of calendar entries written by older people. The calendar entries are analysed focusing on text-internal and text-external aspects, such as structure, contents, linguistic features and functional aspects.","PeriodicalId":53445,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Linguistik","volume":"2019 1","pages":"299 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/ZFAL-2019-2017","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Linguistik","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ZFAL-2019-2017","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract Although some research on the spoken language and conversational behaviour of older people was conducted in Germany between the late 1990 s and the middle of the noughties, the interest in this field seems to have decreased over the last ten years with studies focusing on written texts produced by older people being virtually non-existent. In contrast to the German-speaking context, Anglo-American research on writing by older adults has flourished since the late 1980 s. This study therefore aims to close a research gap by focusing on writing in German in old(er) age and discusses the specific text genre of calendar entries written by older people. The calendar entries are analysed focusing on text-internal and text-external aspects, such as structure, contents, linguistic features and functional aspects.
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The Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik (ZfAL) is the official publication of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) [Society for Applied Linguistics]. It is one of the most important German journals in this field and appears biannually. ZfAL seeks to represent the entire field of applied linguistics and to give impulses for the academic discourse in all of its subdisciplines (e.g. phonetics and speech science, lexicography, grammar and grammar theory, text linguistics and stylistics, discourse studies, media communication, specialized communication, sociolinguistics, language contact and multilingualism, intercultural communication and multilingual discourses, translation/interpretation studies, language didactics, media didactics and media competence, computer linguistics, among others). The emphasis of applied linguistics is on the transfer of linguistic methods and insights to the professional practice of those whose work concerns language, language use and communication.