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Communication, Health and Ageing: Promoting...

Communication, Health and Ageing: Promoting Empowerment

Abstract

Don’t call me a young woman;it’s not a compliment or courtesybut rather a grating discourtesy.Being old is a hard won achievementnot something to be brushed asidetreated as infirmity or uglinessor apologized away by ‘young woman’.(Ruth Harriet Jacobs, 1997, p.8)

Authors

Savundranayagam MY; Ryan EB; Hummert ML

Book title

Language, Discourse and Social Psychology

Pagination

pp. 81-107

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 1, 2007

DOI

10.1057/9780230206168_4

Associated Experts

Ellen Ryan

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences

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Fields of Research (FoR)

3215 Reproductive Medicine 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences 47 Language, Communication and Culture

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