Table of Contents

Language and later life: incipient literatures

Discourse, accommodation and intergenerational relations

Formulating age: discursive dimensions of age identity

'My life in your hands': processes of intergenerational self-disclosure

Troubles-telling, facework and age identiy

Telling age in later life: a strategic analysis

Intergenerational talk: consonance or conflict?

Sociolinguistics and geronotology: applied concerns

About the Author

NIKOLAS COUPLAND is Research Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, and an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.  His current research is on style and performance in spoken discourse, the sociolinguistics of Wales and sociolinguistic theory.