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| Discourse, identity and change in mid-to-late life | | Author(s) | Justine Coupland |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 6, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 849-996 (whole issue) |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Middle aged ; Personality ; Communication ; Cognitive processes ; Linguistics ; Qualitative Studies ; Theory. |
| Annotation | The seven papers in this special issue of Ageing and Society contribute to the growing body of research on sociolinguistic and discursive interpretations of mid and later life, by investigating some of the identity affordances and constraints associated with 'being middle-aged' or 'being old'. The papers offer qualitative, contextually based analyses of a broad range of data. For example, Bill Bytheway uses the Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. Various methodological and theoretical perspectives are used: narrative theory, critical pragmatics, social theory, and discursive psychology. The main focus is on the ways in which change affects the ageing individual, and how this change is discursively interpreted and negotiated both by and for, or about, individuals in diverse social frames. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090723202 A |
| Classmark | BG: SE: DK: U: DA: HJC: 3DP: 4D |
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