Publications

Publication details [#56594]

Divita, David. 2012. Online in later life: Age as a chronological fact and a dynamic social category in an Internet class for retirees. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (5) : 585–612.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | meaning, production of | old age | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This discourse analytic study, using data from an Internet course for retirees, documents how age defines social meaning construction in interaction as both a chronological fact and a dynamic social category.