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Publication details [#27781]

Harwood, Jake and Howard Giles. 1996. Reactions to older people being patronized: The roles of response strategies and attributed thoughts. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 15 (4) : 395–421.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | intergroup communication | language and thought | old age

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores young adults' evaluations of intergenerational patronizing in young adult-elderly encounters, focusing on the presence of young patronizing talk, the nature of the aged person's response, and the thoughts of each target.