Language, Society and the Elderly : Discourse, Identity and Ageing

ISBN-13: 9780631182795 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 236 str.

Howard Giles; Nikolas Coupland; Dr Justine Coupland

Opis

Language, Society and the Elderly is the first concerted attempt to give a social account of language and interaction in later life. The book gives a detailed critique of the cognitive bias of existing studies of elderly people's language. In its place, the authors propose a socially-based approach which explains how older people's life circumstances, concerns, goals and beliefs influence their styles of interaction.