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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Talk to Elders: Social Structure, Attitudes and Forms of Address
Contributor:
Wood, Linda A.;
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1991
Published in:Ageing and Society
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0144686x00003998
ISSN:
0144-686X;
1469-1779
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>In the present paper we analyse some of the problems in talk to elders by examining evaluative dimensions of talk in general and of address forms in particular. We first introduce status and solidarity as primary dimensions underlying talk. We briefly review research on attitudes and talk to elders, and develop a framework in terms of status and solidarity for understanding the evaluation of talk to elders. The framework, speech accommodation theory, and politeness theory are then employed in a specific analysis of various aspects of problematic address usage: title and last name v. first name; third person; first person plural; and no-naming. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the analysis for future research, for practical applications, and for the extension and integration of theory</jats:p>