Beliefs about Language Performance
| Autor: | Jaye L. Shaner, Mary Lee Hummert, Teri A. Garstka |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology humanities Language and Linguistics Education 0508 media and communications Anthropology Perception 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Competence (human resources) Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 14:235-259 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 0261-927X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0261927x95143001 |
| Popis: | Stereotypes of the elderly may lead to beliefs about their communication competence. Yb test this hypothesis, the Language in Adulthood Questionnaire (LIA) (Ryan, Kwong See, Meneer, & Trovato, 1992) was used to assess beliefs of young, middle-aged, and elderly adults about their own language skills and those of four elderly targets. Targets represented two positive (Golden Ager, John Wayne Conservative) and two negative (Despondent, Shrew/Curmudgeon) stereotypes of older adults. As expected, elderly respondents reported more language problems than did the middle-aged and young. However, contrary to expectations, middle-aged respondents reported no more problems than the young, and elderly respondents showed no advantage in skills shown to improve with age. Assessments of the targets supported the hypothesis that beliefs about language skills vary with the characteristics of older individuals and do not derive solely from their categorization as elderly. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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