EAN: 9783110238105

LANGUAGE CULTURE AND THE DYNAMICS OF AGE - ANNA...

The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups 
genres  cultures and languages  and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research
for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis
than has been practiced so far. The volume establishes a point of contact with the work of
Coupland  Giles and associates starting in the 1980s  and shows how it can be extended today to
go beyond the early focus on detrimental aspects of aging. The contributors address social
communication within and across age cohorts in all major age categories: the elderly 
middle-aged  teenagers and children. The social skewing of the research presented explains the
volume's focus on the discursive construction of social identities  with age implicated as a
viable controller of how social action is strategically deployed for alignment and alienation 
accommodation and divergence. The authors emphasize that adiscourse construction of age and
ageing is particularly important in the face of new challenges of globalization  increased
human mobility and rising intergenerational conflicts.

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