Reshaping lives: Constitutive identity work in geriatric medical consultations

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Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-189

  Coupland, Nikolas ^a   Coupland, Justine ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Geriatric medicine; Life narratives; Renegotiation.; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008332447     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1998.18.2.159     Document Type: Article

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36. Nikolas Coupland is Professor and Chair of the Centre for Language and Communication Research at the University of Wales Cardiff. He is founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Sociolinguislics and has authored/edited eleven books on various aspects of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, including Discourse and Lifespan Identity (Sage, 1993, co-edited with Jon Nussbaum)