Language, culture and the dynamics of age / edited by Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duszak, Anna.

Okulska, Urszula.

Series:

Language, power, and social process ; 28.

Language, power and social process ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intergenerational relations.

Language and culture.

Language and languages--Age differences.

Language and languages.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups, genres, cultures and languages, and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis than has been practiced so far. The volume establishes a point of contact with the work of Coupland, Giles and associates starting in the 1980's, and shows how it can be extended today to go beyond the early focus on detrimental aspects of aging. The contributors address social communication within and across age cohorts in all major age categories: the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers and children. The social skewing of the research presented explains the volume's focus on the discursive construction of social identities, with age implicated as a viable controller of how social action is strategically deployed for alignment and alienation, accommodation and divergence. The authors emphasize that a discourse construction of age and ageing is particularly important in the face of new challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and rising intergenerational conflicts.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Age and language studies

Part II. Age and social identification

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 dueling

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 identities via the language of personal advertisements: A Malaysian perspective

Part III. Age in inter-generational communication

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612934353

9781282934351

128293435X

9783110238112

311023811X

OCLC:

707068906