Language, culture and the dynamics of age [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459510903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-93435-X; 9786612934353; 3-11-023811-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Collana: Language, power and social process ; ; 28
• Classificazione: ES 100
• Altri autori (Persone): DuszakAnna; OkulskaUrszula
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetti: Intergenerational relations; Language and culture; Language and languages - Age differences; Sociolinguistics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Age and language studies -- Part II. Age and social identification -- Chapter 2. Aging and sociolinguistic variation -- Chapter 3. Multiple identities of elderly Dutch-Australians -- Chapter 4. Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses into the past in Alzheimer's discourse -- Chapter 5. Alliance building and identity work in girls' talk: Conversational accomplishments of playful dueling -- Chapter 6. Discursive construction of the JPII Generation in letters of Polish children and teenagers to Pope John Paul II -- Chapter 7. Articulating male and female adolescent identities via the language of personal advertisements: A Malaysian perspective -- Part III. Age in inter-generational communication -- Chapter 8. Elder abuse and neglect: A communication framework -- Chapter 9. Discursive construction of (old) age identity in Poland -- Chapter 10. Alcohol as a way of "doing" adolescence: Perspective, stance and strategy in the discourse of Italian institutions -- Chapter 11. "Old" and "young" in discourses of Polish ; transformations -- Chapter 12. "The regime of the adult": Textual manipulations in translated, hybrid and glocal texts for young readers -- Chapter 13. Age and the codification of the English language -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups, genres, cultures and languages, and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis than has been practiced so far. The volume establishes a point of contact with the work of Coupland, Giles and associates starting in the 1980's, and shows how it can be extended today to go beyond the early focus on detrimental aspects of aging. The contributors address social communication within and across age cohorts in all major age categories: the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers and children. The social skewing of the research presented explains the volume's focus on the discursive construction of social identities, with age implicated as a viable controller of how social action is strategically deployed for alignment and alienation, accommodation and divergence. The authors emphasize that a discourse construction of age and ageing is particularly important in the face of new challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and rising intergenerational conflicts.

Epigraphische Studien / Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn. - 1967-

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991002591009707536
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Köln, 1967-
• ISSN: 0071-0989
• Altri autori (Enti): Landschaftsverband Rheinland : Rheinisches Landesmuseum <Bonn>
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Learn reference work / / by Clara L. Sitter, Mary Gosling ; with Colin Gray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971253603321
• Autore: Sitter Clara Loewen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Friendswood, Tex., : TotalRecall Publications, Inc., c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-92343-5; 9786611923433; 1-59095-820-9
• Edizione: [1st North American ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Collana: Library education series
• Altri autori (Persone): GoslingMary <1951->; GrayColin
• Disciplina: 025.52
• Soggetti: Reference services (Libraries); Information services; Libraries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Based on previous Australasian editions"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 REFERENCE SERVICES -- Chapter 2 REFERENCE SOURCES -- Chapter 3 DICTIONARIES -- Chapter 4 ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- Chapter 5 ; FAST FACTS: ALMANACS, HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, YEARBOOKS -- Chapter 6 BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES -- Chapter 7 GEOGRAPHICAL SOURCES -- Chapter 8 BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND LIBRARY CATALOGS -- Chapter 9 DIRECTORIES -- Chapter 10 INDEXES &amp -- ABSTRACTS -- Chapter 11 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS -- Chapter 12 THE INTERNET -- Chapter 13 RESEARCHING AND DELIVERING INFORMATION -- Chapter 14 EVALUATION -- ANSWERS -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS USEFUL FORM SUBDIVISIONS FOR REFERENCE SERVICE -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Practical Introduction to Reference Sources, Skills and Procedures for Library Students and Staff. This combination textbook/workbook provides an introduction to reference work by covering the theory and principles of good reference service, major reference sources in both print and electronic formats, basic reference skills and procedures. It reviews all the major types of reference sources, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, fast facts, biographical services, geographical services, bibliographies and library catalogs, directories, indexes and abstracts, government documents, and the Internet. After completing the practice exercises, readers should have a good understanding of a variety of current reference tools and an introduction to the types of questions each is designed to answer. Also included are plentiful, clear explanations and examples; a glossary with simple definitions of technical terms; a bibliography; and an index. Learn Reference Work is one of nine study guides in the Library Education Series. Please see the back of this book for a complete listing, or visit www.totalrecallpress.com for more information. Clara L. Sitter is an appointed Associate Clinical Professor in the University of Denver, College of Education, Library and Information Science program. She has more than 30 years of professional library experience, including 18 years in academic libraries and 17 years in private and public school libraries, as well as experience in special and public libraries. She has been responsible for most aspects of library service, includingreference, instruction, collection 42 management, cataloging, and administration. Her areas of teaching are organization of information, understanding the information user, collection management, management of information organizations, and reference. Mary Gosling is a reference librarian and library educator who has taught reference and basic library skills for many years. She has been coordinator of the Library Studies Program at the Canberra Institute of Technology and is now a senior reference librarian and manager at the National Library of Australia. As a library educator, Mary has taught a variety of subjects, including reference skills, reader education and information literacy. Colin Gray has worked as a reference librarian, children's librarian, and manager of public services for many years. He has taught most of the subjects in college library technician programs, specializing in reference and public services. He has written teachers' guides, student learning material and curricula.