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Publication details [#37639]

Coupland, Nikolas, Justine Coupland, Howard Giles and Karen Henwood. 1988. Accomodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory. Language in Society 17 (1) : 1–41.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | intergroup communication | old age | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research and argues that a new schematic model of the parameters of speech accommodation theory is a useful framework to explain the sociolinguistic mechanics of and social psychological processes involved in intergenerational communication.