Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age.
Title:
Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age.
Author:
Duszak, Anna.
ISBN:
9783110238112
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (388 pages)
Series:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] ; v.28
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Age and language studies -- Chapter 2. Aging and sociolinguistic variation -- Chapter 3. Multiple identities of elderly Dutch-Australians -- Chapter 4. Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses into the past in Alzheimer's discourse -- Chapter 5. Alliance building and identity work in girls' talk: Conversational accomplishments of playful duelling -- Chapter 6. Discursive construction of the JPII Generation in letters of Polish children and teenagers to Pope John Paul II -- Chapter 7. Articulating male and female adolescent identitiesvia the language of personal advertisements: A Malaysian perspective -- Chapter 8. Elder abuse and neglect: A communication framework -- Chapter 9. Discursive construction of (old) age identity in Poland -- Chapter 10. Alcohol as a way of "doing" adolescence: Perspective, stance and strategy in the discourse of Italian institutions -- Chapter 11. "Old" and "young" in discourses of Polish transformations -- Chapter 12. "The regime of the adult": Textual manipulations in translated, hybrid and glocal texts for young readers -- Chapter 13. Age and the codification of the English language -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups (the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers, children), genres, cultures and languages. The social skewing of the contributions explains the book's focus on discourse-mediated social identities, with age implicated as a viable controller of how social action is strategically deployed for alignment and alienation, accommodation and divergence. The studies in the book show the particular importance of the discursive construction of age in the face of new challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and rising intergenerational conflicts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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