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| Patterns in discourse about elderly people in New Zealand | | Author(s) | Sik Hung Ng, Tim McCreanor |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 4, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 473-489 |
| Keywords | Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social policy ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | As the number of senior citizens continues to rise, their public profile will grow, and political discussion about their future will become increasingly prominent. The present research was designed to approach such debate, by providing an assay of naturally occurring data drawn from the New Zealand Royal Commission on Social Policy (1986-1988). Public submissions to the Royal Commission on the specific subject of senior citizens were extracted and examined from a discourse analysis perspective. The results obtained by two independent analyses showed three patterns of discourse: society's obligations to older people; anti-ageism; and old age as a positive resource. This troika of discourse patterns constitutes a collective voice through which older people and their supporters defend and advocate the social position of older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000120223 A |
| Classmark | TOB: TM2: 7YN |
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