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"Old" versus "little girl"
— a discursive approach to age categorization and morality | | Author(s) | Pirjo Nikander |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 14, no 4, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 335-358 |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Life span. |
| Annotation | Cultural age categorisations and age descriptions as used in writing and conversation are examined. Interviews with men and women close to their 50th birthdays are analysed for contradictory accounts of being both "old" and "a little girl". The author argues that adopting a discursive approach to the situational usage of categories not only shows how age talk and age descriptions are put together by participants in interaction, but also how, by starting with participants accounts (i.e. the active meaning-making processes of people interacting), we can analyse how notions of age appropriateness, age norms, and local moral orders of age are produced as part of everyday categorisation talk. The article builds on discussion on qualitative language-centred research, centred on discursive social psychology and life-course perspectives. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010131208 B |
| Classmark | SE: TOB: BG6 |
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