Exploring Lifespan Discourse in Interaction: The Young, the Old, and the In-Betweens

Title: Exploring Lifespan Discourse in Interaction Subtitle: The Young, the Old, and the In-Betweens Subject Classification: Language and Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology BIC Classification: CFG, CFF BISAC Classification: LAN009050, SOC053000, PSY045060 Binding: Hardback, eBook Planned publication date: Mar 2027 ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-111-2 ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-112-9 e-books available for libraries from Proquest and EBSCO with non-institutional availability from GooglePlay For larger orders, or orders where you require an invoice, contact us admin@ethicspress.com Description This volume offers an integrated account of discourse and interaction across the human lifespan. Exploring Lifespan Discourse in Interaction adopts a broad, interactional perspective to examine how verbal, embodied, and sequential resources are mobilized in communication from infancy to older adulthood. The collection brings together research from diverse international contexts, with a special emphasis on underrepresented Asian settings, and seeks a coherent conceptual framework of 'multidimensional pathways' to link developmental trajectories with social life. Chapters explore the emergence of communicative competence in infants and children, identity articulation in young adults, and the nuanced discursive practices of aging, including in clinical contexts like dementia and autism. It also explores intergenerational communication, where identities and social meanings are negotiated. This book is essential reading for scholars and students in discourse analysis, gerontolinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and communication studies. Biography Editor(s): Dr. Dongyi Zhu is an Associate Professor at School of International Studies, Shaanxi Normal University, China. Her main research interests include pragmatics, conversational narratives and discourse studies on ageing. Dr Deyu Zhou is an Assistant Professor at East China University of Sciece and Technology. Dr. Lihe Huang is a Professor at Tongji University, China. Reviews This title is currently being reviewed. Please check back for further updates in due course.