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Publication details [#51873]

Toller, Paige W. 2008. Bereaved Parents' Negotiation of Identity Following the Death of a Child. Communication Studies 59 (4) : 306–321.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | communication | emotion | family conversation | identity negotiation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper describes how parents, bereaved of a child, employed communication to negotiate two dialectical identity contradictions, that is of parent without a child to parent and of insider to outsider.