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Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age (Hardcover)
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Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age (Hardcover)
Series: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]
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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 1980s, 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.
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