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Discourse, identity and change in mid-to-late life — interdisciplinary perspectives on language and ageing
Author(s)	Justine Coupland
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 6, August 2009
Pages	pp 849-862
Source	http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso
Keywords	Ageing process ; Middle aged ; Personality ; Communication ; Cognitive processes ; Linguistics ; Qualitative Studies ; Theory.
Annotation	The papers in this issue of Ageing and Society offer qualitative, contextually based analyses of a broad range of data and use various methodological and theoretical perspectives: narrative theory, critical pragmatics, social theory, and discursive psychology. The main focus is on the ways in which change impacts on the ageing individual, and how this change is discursively interpreted and negotiated both by and for, or about individuals in diverse social frames. Age and change are examined as they interact with personal and social identity in personal diary accounts, in print, on the television and web media, in conversations amongst friends and acquaintances, in interviews and during storytelling. Language and communication are examined as resources for making and interpreting the meanings of ageing, at both the macro (societal) and micro (individual and inter-personal) levels. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090723203 A
Classmark	BG: SE: DK: U: DA: HJC: 3DP: 4D
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