TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-cultural conceptualizations of ageing in Australia
AU - Huang, Hui
AU - Sharifian, Farzad
AU - Feldman, Susan
AU - Yang, Hui
AU - Radermacher, Harriet Lindsay
AU - Browning, Colette
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In this paper, the framework of cultural linguistics is employed to examine how older people from two different ethnic backgrounds in Australia conceptualize ageing and their own experience of ageing. The paper employs a qualitative method for the instantiations of interviews from two focus groups of Australian women. The results indicated that women of Anglo-Celtic background had a more self-oriented perception of ageing, aged care and self, while women of Chinese background had a more relational outlook. However, the evidence indicated that changes were taking place in both traditions despite a certain degree of continuity.
AB - In this paper, the framework of cultural linguistics is employed to examine how older people from two different ethnic backgrounds in Australia conceptualize ageing and their own experience of ageing. The paper employs a qualitative method for the instantiations of interviews from two focus groups of Australian women. The results indicated that women of Anglo-Celtic background had a more self-oriented perception of ageing, aged care and self, while women of Chinese background had a more relational outlook. However, the evidence indicated that changes were taking place in both traditions despite a certain degree of continuity.
UR - https://benjamins.com/catalog/cogls.00021.hua
M3 - Article
SN - 2213-8722
VL - 5
SP - 261
EP - 281
JO - Cognitive Linguistic Studies
JF - Cognitive Linguistic Studies
IS - 2
ER -