Kim Grego
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kim Grego plays a role.
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2022 Chapter 12. How old is old? The discourse of “good” ageing in nineteenth-century self-help medical texts Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Chapter
Life expectancy in developed countries has increased significantly over the past two centuries. This study contributes to the existing literature on how “old age” was defined and described at the onset of this development, namely in nineteenth-century British self-help texts, directed at… read more