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Bryan S. Green. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age: A Study in Discourse Analysis. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993, pp. 226. $49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Frank Nuessel
Affiliation:
Program in Linguistics, University of Louisville.

Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1995

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