the Centre for Language and Communication at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Her research addresses
various aspects of language and social identity, including discourse-analytic studies of health andaging, media representations, and discourses of the body. Her books include Small Talk, the Handbookof Communication and Aging Research (with Jon Nussbaum), and Language, Society and the Elderly(with Nik Coupland and Howard Giles). The author would like to thank June Church for her commentson an earlier draft of this manuscript and Judith Davies for access to some of the data.
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