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In navigating different representations from a discursive and linguistic perspective, the book offers new vistas on the role of language in the personal and societal ageing experience addressing debates on ageism, anti-ageing, age care, active ageing, and political correctness in handling age-sensitive matters. The book demonstrates how culture, media and public discourse can produce stereotypical, unrealistic, and derogatory ways of talking about maturity, ageing, lifecourse, and senior citizenry that can be discriminatory or endorse imperative representations of old age.

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Laura Tommaso is researcher of English at the University of Molise, where she teaches ESP and applied linguistics. Her areas of interest and research fall within the scope of cultural gerontology, health discourse and English language teaching. She has published and presented on the representation of ageing identities in popular culture and healthcare, and genre-based writing in multilingual virtual learning environments.

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