Ageing Identities and Women's Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon

ISBN-13: 9780367245511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 244 str.

Rachel Heinrichsmeier

Opis

Heinrichsmeier presents the results of her two-year sociolinguistic study examining how a group of older women of different ages negotiated their way through their own and others’ expectations of ageing and constructed different kinds of older – and other – identities for themselves.

O autorze

Rachel Heinrichsmeier is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Her research focusses on identity construction in interaction, particularly older-age, gender and institutional identities, and combines a conversation analytic-informed discourse analysis with ethnographic methods.