TY - BOOK ID - 77928848 TI - Language, culture and the dynamics of age AU - Duszak, Anna AU - Okulska, Urszula PY - 2011 SN - 128293435X 9786612934353 311023811X 9783110238112 9783110238105 3110238101 9781282934351 PB - Berlin New York De Gruyter Mouton DB - UniCat KW - Intergenerational relations. KW - Language and culture. KW - Language and languages KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - Intergenerational relationships KW - Relations, Intergenerational KW - Relationships, Intergenerational KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Age differences. KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Discourse Analysis. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77928848 AB - 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 1980's, 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 a discourse construction of age and ageing is particularly important in the face of new challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and rising intergenerational conflicts. ER -