Publications

Publication details [#32389]

Stephens, Christine and Mary Breheny. 2003. Healthy Living and Keeping Busy: A Discourse Analysis of Mid-Aged Women's Attributions for Menopausal Experience. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 22 (2) : 169–189.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attributiveness | discourse analysis | self-presentation | women's language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of mid-aged women's accounts of their own and other women's menopausal experience, identifies two discourses drawn upon to make attributions for this experience: healthy habits and keeping busy.