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Publication details [#60103]

Hajek, Christopher. 2015. Gay men in early midlife: Intergenerational accommodation for approval, reclaimed status, and distinctiveness. Language & Communication 41 : 46–56.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | gay | generation2 | intergroup communication | social status

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper proposes a novel grounded theory of gay midlife intergenerational accommodation. Forty gay men (aged 40–53) in four U.S. cities (non)verbally converge with and diverge from younger men, using a tuned and expanded CAT maintenance strategy for self-enhancement.