Discourse and lifespan identity
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Discourse and lifespan identity
(Language and language behaviors, v. 4)
Sage Publications, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and author, subject indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How are human and social development, maturation, ageing, stability and change reflected and constituted in interaction and social texts? This volume explores these questions from the viewpoint that rhetorical accomplishment plays a significant role in lifespan development and in the quality of our developmental experiences.
Whether the focus is on transitions through student careers, mother-daughter relationships or marital communication, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume provide specific analyses of discursive practices in and through which age-related identities and roles are formulated, challenged or consolidated. The result is a dynamic view of lifespan development in our culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Nikolas Coupland, Jon F Nussbaum and Alan Grossman
Discourse, Selfhood and the Lifespan
PART ONE: DISCURSIVELY FORMULATING THE LIFESPAN
Becoming Someone - John Shotter
Identity and Belonging
Autobiographies and the Shaping of Gendered Lives - Mary M Gergen and Kenneth J Gergen
Discursively Formulating the Significance of Reminiscence in Later Life - Kevin Buchanan and Dave Middleton
Positioning and Autobiography - Luk Van Langenhove and Rom Harre
Telling Your Life
PART TWO: ACHIEVING CONTROL, TRANSITION AND CONTINUITY
Pedagogic Discourse and Interaction Orders - Karin Aronsson and Ann-Carita Evaldsson
Sharingtime and Control
Contextualizing Social Control - Diane T Prusank
An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Parental Accounts of Discipline Interactions
Transitions Through the Student Career - Ann Q Staton
Making Connections - Valerie Cryer Downs
Narratives as the Expression of Continuity Between Generations of Grandparents and Grandchildren
PART THREE: DISCOURSE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
The Construction of `Closeness' in Mother-Daughter Relationships Across the Lifespan - Karen Henwood and Geraldine Coughlan
Intergenerational Communication in the Mother-Daughter Dyad Regarding Caregiving Decisions - Victor G Cicirelli
Investigations of Marital Communication and Lifespan Development - Alan L Sillars and Paul H Zietlow
Couples and Change - William W Wilmot and Joyce L Hocker
Intervention Through Discourse and Images
Epilogue - Nikolas Coupland, Justine Coupland and Jon F Nussbaum
Future Prospects in Lifespan Sociolinguistics
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