Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies

This volume is a collection of studies dealing with age or, rather, ages, mainly from a linguistic viewpoint, but also accommodating inputs from other disciplinary perspectives. In detail, it aims to focus on the linguistic, social, economic and ethical aspects of social groups defined in terms of age – which clearly includes seniors but, as shall be seen, is not limited to that. It thus offers a comparison of different age- related communication strategies, in order to share knowledge about them. The editorial project behind this collection stems from the interuniversity research project ‘Age.Vol.A. (Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for assisting the ageing)’, funded by the Cariplo Foundation for the years 2018– 2022 (ref. code: 2017- 0950), aimed at easing or removing the linguistic and cultural barriers existing between home- assisted Italian seniors and their non- Italian caregivers – a widespread social phenomenon in Italy – through multilingual digital tools and applications.