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Peer reviewedHarwood, Jake; Giles, Howard – Language Sciences, 1993
Results from a survey are presented that provide initial indications of the importance of linguistic and communicative processes to an understanding of midlife. The Communication Accommodation Theory is invoked in the development of a model of one particular process within the area of communication and middle-age--the socialization of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Language Attitudes, Linguistic Theory
