Language, culture and the dynamics of age

Duszak, Anna. (Added Author). Okulska, Urszula. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 311023811X
ISBN: 9783110238112
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Age and language studies / Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska -- Age and social identification: Aging and sociolinguistic variation / David Bowie -- Multiple identities of elderly Dutch-Australians /Ingrid Seebus -- Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses into the past in Alzheimer's discourse / Heidi E. Hamilton -- Alliance building and identity work in early adolescent girls' talk: Conversational accomplishments of playful dueling /Angela M. Ardington -- Discursive construction of the JPII Generation in letters of Polish children and teenagers to Pope John Paul II / Urszula Okulska -- Articulating male and female adolescent identities via the language of personal advertisements: A Malaysian perspective / Bahiyah Dato Hj. Abdul Hamid and Kesumawati Abu Bakar -- Age in inter-generational communication: Elder abuse and neglect: A communication framework / Howard Giles and Jill Helmle -- -- Discursive construction of (elderly) age-identity in Poland / Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak -- Alcohol as a way of :doing" adolescence: Perspective, stance and strategy in the discourse of Italian institutions / Giuseppina Cortese -- "Old" and "young" in discourses of Polish transformations / Anna Duszak -- "The regime of the adult": Textual manipulations in translated, hybrid and glocal texts for young readers / Michal Borodo -- Age and the codification of the English language / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	In English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.