Language, Society and the Elderly

Howard (University of California, Santa Barbara) Giles, Justine Coupland, Nikolas (Cardiff University) Coupland

John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1991

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Offering a detailed critique of the cognitive bias of existing studies of elderly people's language, this work proposes in its place a socially-based approach which explains how older people's life circumstances, concerns, goals and beliefs influence their styles of interaction.

ISBN-13
9780631182795
ISBN-10
0631182799
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year
1991
Publication date
1991-08-22
Pages
236
Dimensions
228x153x15
Weight
374