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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: What can Linguistics Do for the Aging World?.- Section 1: Representing Aging Images from Social Media.- Chapter 2: Expanding social interaction through online technology: using social media in vascular dementia.- Chapter 3: Who we are and how others see us: older adults' images and identities in Chinese news media.- Chapter 4: Pluralities of old age A study based on online surveys in China and France.- Section 2: Sketching Diverse Interactions in Public Settings.- Chapter 5: Aging patients' repetition of narrative topics in medical interactions.- Chapter 6: Conversational Behaviours in Clinical Diagnosis: An Empirical Study of Question-answering of Dementia in Alzheimer-Type Patients.- Chapter 7: Older Adults' Help-Seeking Narration as Multi-modal Text: A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Situated Discourse.- Chapter 8: Exploring citations keyed to persons with dementia: Present and prospect (1993-2023).- Section 3: Promoting Healthy Aging through Language Interventions.- Chapter 9:The role of linguistics in the study of aging populations with dementia.- Chapter 10: Reducing the Effects of Loneliness in the Elderly: Enacting the Principle of Linguistic Gratuity'.- Chapter 11: Language Nutrition in Acquisition, Learning, and Attrition.- Chapter 12: Learning a Lx among Older Adults.
