Dealing with life changes: Humour in painful self-disclosures by elderly Japanese women

Ageing and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 929-952

  Matsumoto, Yoshiko ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Death; Frames; Humour; Interaction; Japanese women; Narrative; Self disclosure

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ELDERLY POPULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 70450235114     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X0900885X     Document Type: Article

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