Weekly outline
- General
- 1. 2 March - 8 March
- 2. 9 March - 15 March
2. 9 March - 15 March
week 2 understanding basic concepts: ageing, life course, age and development, ageism, stereotypes of older people and the realization in daily life contexts (I)
- 3. 16 March - 22 March
- 4. 23 March - 29 March
4. 23 March - 29 March
week 4 understanding research approaches to language and ageing studies (I): communication research paradigm
- 5. 30 March - 5 April
5. 30 March - 5 April
week 5 understanding research approaches to language and ageing studies (II): gerontological sociolinguistic paradigm
- 6. 6 April - 12 April
6. 6 April - 12 April
week 6 : media representaitons of older people (I): communication appraoch
case study: comparative study of advertising portrayals of older people in the UK and Taiwan
- 7. 13 April - 19 April
- 8. 20 April - 26 April
8. 20 April - 26 April
week 8: media representaitons of older people (II): gerontological sociolinguistic appraoch
case study: older people's dating ads (J. Coupland)
- 9. 27 April - 3 May
9. 27 April - 3 May
week 9 : mid-term oral report: choose one paper related to media representations of older people and report the outcomes; collect a small sample of relevant Taiwanese data to duplicate the research; report your pilot study and compare the outcomes
- 10. 4 May - 10 May
10. 4 May - 10 May
week 10 : silver marketing and media representaitons of older people (the use of Critical discourse analysis I)
case study: life insurance ads and ideology of ageing (Chen, 2015)
- 11. 11 May - 17 May
11. 11 May - 17 May
week 11 : decoding the ideology of ageing and older age in newspapers (the use of Critical discourse analysis II)
case study: discursive construction of older people in Taiwanese newspapers (Chen, 2017)
- 12. 18 May - 24 May
- 13. 25 May - 31 May
13. 25 May - 31 May
week 13 : intergenerational communicaiton (I): communication paradigm
basic conceps: communicaiton accommodation theory, studies on communication perceptions of intergenerational communication in communicaiton and social psychological disciplines
- 14. 1 June - 7 June
14. 1 June - 7 June
week 14: intergenerational communicaiton (II): gerontological sociolinguistic paradigm
basic concepts: painful-self-disclosure; self-disenfranchisement; social functions of age-telling strategies; young-old talks versus old-old talks
- 15. 8 June - 14 June
15. 8 June - 14 June
week 15: intergeneraitonal communication (III): application of conversation analyais in intergenerational communicaiton studies ; reading an assigned paper ; application of the method for final assignement
- 16. 15 June - 21 June
16. 15 June - 21 June
week 16: communicaiton with older people in service (I) : senior education contexts ; teacher-student interactions ; communicaiton strategies adopted by teachers of senior education (an assiged paper to read and discuss)
- 17. 22 June - 28 June
17. 22 June - 28 June
week 17: communicaiton with older people in service (II): home-based long-term home care contexts; types of older care receivers; communication strategies adopted by care givers; including some discussion on communication with dementia patients in family contexts and in medical contexts (assigned papers to read and discuss)
- 18. 29 June - 5 July
18. 29 June - 5 July
week 18: final assignement
pick one journal article related to the themes covered in the lectures following the mid-term exam week and present the research by means of PPT ; provide your critical comments on the strengh and weakness of the study and how you are going to extend this study if you were given an opportunity to do so.
《尊重智慧財產權，請使用正版教科書，勿非法影印書籍及教材，以免侵犯他人著作權》