Language, culture and the dynamics of age /

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Imprint:Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Language, power and social process ; 28
Language, power, and social process ; 28.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11243914
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Other authors / contributors:Duszak, Anna.
Okulska, Urszula.
ISBN:9783110238112
311023811X
9783110238105
3110238101
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary:The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups (the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers, children), genres, cultures and languages. The social skewing of the contributions explains the book's focus on discourse-mediated social identities, with age implicated as a viable controller of how social action is strategically deployed for alignment and alienation, accommodation and divergence. The studies in the book show the particular importance of the discursive construction of age in the face of new challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and.
Other form:Print version: Language, culture and the dynamics of age. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 9783110238105
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110238112