Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly

Language in Society

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-72

  Mautner, Gerlinde ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ageism; Ageist language; Corpus linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947389682     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404507070030     Document Type: Review

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