The notion of “old age” – and to a lesser extent that of “aging” – is a topical, multifaceted notion that needs to be questioned societally, and which we propose to study through the prism of discourses. In the light of contemporary (aging populations on a global scale), recent (effects of the heat wave on elderly people in some countries) and very recent (health crisis, scandal of the nursing homes in France, etc.) news, we propose to question, in a multilingual contrastive/comparative perspective, without restriction of languages studied, nor of modality (written, oral, multimodal...), the notions of “old age” and “aging” through the produced discourses, in order to study the diversity of the representations, but also the effects that those analyses can have on the society, so as to gain a better understanding of the future of our elderly people. The elderly person is also multiform and cannot be restricted to a body and/or a mind to be cared for. It will therefore be necessary to examine the aging person in all its facets, not only in medical terms.

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ELAD-SILDA publishes two thematic issues every year. Please send your proposals to Denis Jamet (denis.jamet[a]univ-lyon3.fr) and Weiwei Guo (weiwei.guo[a]univ-lyon2.fr) before June, 30th, 2023. Full articles are due by November 30th, 2023. Submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by two members of the international scientific committee. Abstract submissions should include a title in English, in French and in the language of the article, as well as a short abstract (between 200 and 350 words) in English, in French and in the language of the article (if different from French or English) and selected bibliographical references.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Semantics
Text/Corpus Linguistics