Publications

Publication details [#30693]

Giles, Howard and Jake Harwood. 1993. Creating intergenerational distance: Language, communication and middle-age. Language Sciences 15 (1) : 15–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | generation2 | language | socialization | understanding

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses survey results that present initial indications of the importance of linguistic and communicative processes in understanding mid-life. A model is then developed for the socialization of the middle-aged into elderly roles, a process described as 'intergenerational distancing'.