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Type: Thesis
Title: I've had a good life - I can't complain : a description of cognitive, physiological and environmental effects on discourse behaviour with ageing and an analysis of discursive representations of normal ageing / by Carol Gibson.
Other Titles: Description of cognitive, physiological and environmental effects on discourse behaviour with ageing and an analysis of discursive representations of normal ageing
Author: Gibson, Carol, (Carol Margaret).
Issue Date: 2001
School/Discipline: Dept. of Linguistics
Abstract: Physiological, cognitive and environmental changes, together with personal and social attitudes towards the ageing process and towards the state of being old, bring about alterations in opportunities for communication. This, in turn, brings about changes in who we talk to, what we talk about and how we are talked about. This dissertation discusses the changes and the subsequent effects on communication abilities and possibilities. There are three interrelated elements in this research project: linguistic self-identification of the elderly, linguistic representaion of the elderly and communication networks of the elderly. Findings indicate that the predominant social perseptions of ageing as revealed through the media and most fiction, with the exception of some children's picture books, are linguistically marked for negative stereotypes.
Dissertation Note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2001
Subject: Older people.
Discourse analysis.
Description: Includes bibliographical references.
xi, 264, [69] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
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