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| Sociolinguistic issues in ageing | | Author(s) | Nikolas Coupland, Justine Coupland, Howard Giles |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 11, part 2, June 1991 |
| Pages | pp 99-208 (special issue) |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Linguistics. |
| Annotation | Social science is renewing its interest in language and communication processes for a cluster of overlapping reasons. Discourse and text-based approaches have been portrayed in psychology and in social psychology as a revolution. Over a much longer period, sociology has supported some of the most innovative and radical approaches to language and interaction, originally under the label of ethno-methodology and later as conversation analysis. In this issue, the range of available research into language and ageing in social contexts is provided; for where ageing is concerned, it is important to distinguish sociolinguistic from other linguistic approaches. This issue, of six articles, has developed out of a Fulbright International Colloquium on "Communication, Health and the Elderly" convened at the University of Wales conference centre in December 1988. This interdisciplinary forum was one of the first UK venues to have explored social gerontological themes from diverse but generally sociolinguistic standpoints. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-910910005 A |
| Classmark | DA: HJC |
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