Introduction: What Can Linguistics Do for the Aging World?

With the worldwide increase of aging, studies on language in aging have offered an essential perspective for exploring physical, psychological, and behavioral changes in older adults. The previous and substantial development of these studies focuses on linguistic change in individuals’ typical and atypical aging processes. Growing attention has been paid to communicative issues from multidisciplinary approaches, including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and gerontology-based aging studies.