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| Older people's understandings of verbal abuse | | Author(s) | Joan M Nandlal |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 9, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 17-31 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to identify ways in which older people understand abuse. A social constructionist, discourse analytic approach was used to analyse interviews with eight older people about the meaning of the term abuse and their experiences of abuse. The main findings were: participants' definitions of abuse were complex and differed in some important ways from those found in the literature; abuse was seen to almost invariably involve verbal abuse; language was often judged to be abusive because of the actions it accomplishes rather than because its literal or referential meanings; and speech had to meet four criteria to be seen as abusive: an accountable speaker, unwarranted violation of rights, unwarranted assumptions about relationships, and a recipient who is harmed. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971205405 A |
| Classmark | QNT: DP |
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