Cross-cultural conceptualizations of ageing in Australia
Hui Huang | Monash University
Farzad Sharifian | Monash University
Susan Feldman | Monash University
Hui Yang | Monash University
Harriet Radermacher | Monash University
Colette Browning | Australian National University
In this paper, the framework of cultural linguistics is employed to examine how older people from two different ethnic backgrounds in Australia conceptualize ageing and their own experience of ageing. The paper employs a qualitative method for the instantiations of interviews from two focus groups of Australian women. The results indicated that women of Anglo-Celtic background had a more self-oriented perception of ageing, aged care and self, while women of Chinese background had a more relational outlook. However, the evidence indicated that changes were taking place in both traditions despite a certain degree of continuity.
Keywords: cultural linguistics, cultural conceptualizations, Anglo-Australian, ageing, Chinese-Australian
Published online: 14 February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00021.hua
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00021.hua
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