Chapter
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
2007
DOI
10.1057/9780230206168_4