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The role of discourse in composing a life
Author(s)Myrna Harrienger
Journal titleJournal of Aging Studies, vol 12, no 2, Summer 1998
Pagespp 129-136
KeywordsMemory and Reminiscence ; Language studies ; Older women ; Case studies ; United States of America.
AnnotationMikhail Bakhtin, a Russian linguist, provides a basis for discourse theory, in which he maintains that discourse, both spoken and written, has a central role in meaning. This article draws on discourse and also lived experience in an ethnographic case study of Grace, an 80-year-old woman institutionalised after suffering stroke-related right front lobe damage. The author studied Grace's oral and written discourse spanning 62 years from age 18 until she died in 1988. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-990126204 A
ClassmarkDB: HJ: BD: 69P: 7T

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