Justine Coupland
Biographic Data
| ID | 187893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justine Coupland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justine |
| FAMILY NAME | Coupland |
| SIGNATURE | COUPLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 451 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The granny
The concept of ‘the granny’ is not uncommon in British media texts, in a range of stereotyped representations of older women and in (sometimes playful, sometimes serious) invocations of the grandmother role. ‘Granny parties’ are one genre of recreational social event where young people dress up as grannies. In this paper I bring together data from the media and from an ethnographic study of granny parties in order to assess the age-political and …
Social Functions of Small Talk and Gossip
Discourse, identity and change in mid-to-late life
The papers in this special issue contribute to the growing body of research on sociolinguistic and discursive interpretations of mid and later life by investigating some of the identity affordances and constraints associated with ‘being middle-aged’ or ‘being old’. The papers here offer qualitative, contextually based analyses of a broad range of data and use various methodological and theoretical perspectives: narrative theory, critical pragmati…
Time, the body and the reversibility of ageing
Contemporary popular culture proposes new ideological associations between time, ageing, the body and personal identity projects. In a range of magazine texts, television shows and associated websites, several commercialised discourses equate ageing, and women's ageing in particular, with the ‘look’ of ageing. They project a version of personal ageing that is reversible and repairable, on the presumption that looking younger is universally a desi…
Othering in gossip
It has been claimed that gossip allows participants to negotiate aspects of group membership, and the inclusion and exclusion of others, by working out shared values. This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways. Participants are found to share judgments not only about others' behavior but also about their own behavior through particul…
Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Potentially transgressive or "unsafe" narrative themes offer a means of achieving intimacy among speakers. We examine 3 extracts from leisure-time conversations among different groups of young friends, where stories are told on topics that are conventionally considered "rude" or risqueacute-the defiling of food, vomiting, and watching animals having sex. The analysis shows how speakers in various ways negotiate their own local orientations to the…
Small Talk
Volume 36, Number1, 2003 Contents: J. Coupland, Talk: Social Functions. J. Thornborrow, The Organization of Primary School Children's On-Task and Off-Task Talk in a Group Setting. M. McCarthy, Talking Back: Small Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation. J. Holmes, Talk at Work: Potential Problems for workers With an Intellectual Disability. J. Coupland, A. Jaworski, Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Discourse, the Body, and Identity
Conflicting discourses, shifting ideologies
This article uses a close pragmatic analysis to examine three discourses of the menopause, each with identifiably different health and lifespan ideologies, each used to further its own set of economic and/or political agendas. We argue that these texts have potentially powerful influential effects on women's interpretations of their own `change of life'. Discourse 1 (the `pharmaceutical' discourse) is represented by pharmaceutical brochures, whic…
Past the “Perfect Kind of Age”? Styling Selves and Relationships in Over-50s Dating Advertisements
Dating ads are a revealing site for analyzing age-identity negotiations. Through a distributional survey and qualitative analyses of older people's ads, this paper shows how advertisers respond to, and negotiate, normative constraints on their communicative task in this genre. Older people's dating ads tend to express restrained, modest, and nonsexual relational goals. Their references to age often are mitigated. Appearance is given less emphasis…
Egg Seeks Sperm. End of Story…? Articulating Gay Parenting in Small Ads for Reproductive Partners
Gay men and lesbians place small advertisements in the gay press to find reproductive partners. Analyses of over 200 such `mating ads' reveal that advertisers use a range of discursive methods to manage the potential gay parenting identities. We examine how gay male and lesbian advertisers adapt the formulaic format of the classified ad by exploiting the intertextual resonance of the job ad and the dating ad in order to construe reproductive iden…
Readings of extrapolated contexts
Articulations of Same-sex Desire
A survey of self and other categorisation in 200 lesbian and gay male dating advertisement texts, taken from current magazines and newspapers, reveals the discursive means by which homosexual advertisers in our corpus commodify and market sexual/self-gendered identities. Detailed analysis of a sub-sample of the advertisements allows us to trace the discourse processes and conventions used in formulating identity in such texts. We interpret these …
Negotiating sun use
Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times
This paper suggests a competing discourses formulation for ecolinguistics. In relation to the issue of ozone depletion and consequent acknowledged health hazards, more general environmental concerns are opposed by traditional, recreational discourses which assert that sun-use is `fun'. A more contemporary discourse which legitimizes, commodifies and technologizes sun-use is another opposition force. We trace these discourse formations in a sample…
Talking about Generation X
In response to a recent explosion of media attention to so-called Generation X, the authors investigated youngpeoples'responses to media constructions of this generational category label. Twenty-six volunteers aged 19-23 participated in six audiotaped focus group discussions A discourse analytic perspective enables the authors to explore how these young participants worked together to negotiate their generational identity and their position in th…
Dating Advertisements
Dating advertisements are the textual products of a discourse of commodification and marketization. They are certainly a prime site for witnessing the textual construction of self- and other-identities in the service of developing new relationships. Furthermore, close examination of a corpus of written and spoken dating advertisements reveals advertisers' resources for resisting full-blown self-commodification. Individuals can, to some extent, ex…
Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations
Institutional discourse typically involves a dialectic between institutional (e.g. medical) frames and socio-relational frames for talk. The paper draws on audio-recorded data from a geriatric outpatients clinic in the UK to show how doctors and elderly patients collaborate in and negotiate the work of entering an apparently medical frame of talk. Particular attention is paid to sequences involving how are you?-type elicitations. Social and medic…
Discourses of ageism and anti-ageism
Language, Society and the Elderly
Contexts of Accommodation
How are you
Since its introduction by Malinowski in the 1920s, "phatic communion" has often been appealed to as a concept in sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, and communication, typically taken to designate a conventionalized and desemanticized discourse mode or "type." But anegotiationperspective, following the conversation analysis tradition of research on greetings and troubles telling, fits the discursive realities better. Phaticity is a multidime…
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Contexts of Accommodation
The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our language and communication patterns toward others. Since accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been elaborated and expanded many times. In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanati…
Accommodation theory
Introduction When academic theorizing addresses everyday communication phenomena, there are losses as well as gains. Research may, selectively or otherwise, partially represent the full subtlety of contextualized interaction. Methodological constraints may impose their own selectivity, so that we tend to access the accessible and learn what is most readily learnable. The real-time nature of programmatic research will reflect epistemological shift…
Accommodating the elderly
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
How are you
Since its introduction by Malinowski in the 1920s, "phatic communion" has often been appealed to as a concept in sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, and communication, typically taken to designate a conventionalized and desemanticized discourse mode or "type." But anegotiationperspective, following the conversation analysis tradition of research on greetings and troubles telling, fits the discursive realities better. Phaticity is a multidime…
Small Talk
Volume 36, Number1, 2003 Contents: J. Coupland, Talk: Social Functions. J. Thornborrow, The Organization of Primary School Children's On-Task and Off-Task Talk in a Group Setting. M. McCarthy, Talking Back: Small Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation. J. Holmes, Talk at Work: Potential Problems for workers With an Intellectual Disability. J. Coupland, A. Jaworski, Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Dating Advertisements
Dating advertisements are the textual products of a discourse of commodification and marketization. They are certainly a prime site for witnessing the textual construction of self- and other-identities in the service of developing new relationships. Furthermore, close examination of a corpus of written and spoken dating advertisements reveals advertisers' resources for resisting full-blown self-commodification. Individuals can, to some extent, ex…
Othering in gossip
It has been claimed that gossip allows participants to negotiate aspects of group membership, and the inclusion and exclusion of others, by working out shared values. This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways. Participants are found to share judgments not only about others' behavior but also about their own behavior through particul…
Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations
Institutional discourse typically involves a dialectic between institutional (e.g. medical) frames and socio-relational frames for talk. The paper draws on audio-recorded data from a geriatric outpatients clinic in the UK to show how doctors and elderly patients collaborate in and negotiate the work of entering an apparently medical frame of talk. Particular attention is paid to sequences involving how are you?-type elicitations. Social and medic…
Politeness in context
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Elderly self-disclosure
Articulations of Same-sex Desire
A survey of self and other categorisation in 200 lesbian and gay male dating advertisement texts, taken from current magazines and newspapers, reveals the discursive means by which homosexual advertisers in our corpus commodify and market sexual/self-gendered identities. Detailed analysis of a sub-sample of the advertisements allows us to trace the discourse processes and conventions used in formulating identity in such texts. We interpret these …
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Discourses of ageism and anti-ageism
Time, the body and the reversibility of ageing
Contemporary popular culture proposes new ideological associations between time, ageing, the body and personal identity projects. In a range of magazine texts, television shows and associated websites, several commercialised discourses equate ageing, and women's ageing in particular, with the ‘look’ of ageing. They project a version of personal ageing that is reversible and repairable, on the presumption that looking younger is universally a desi…
Conflicting discourses, shifting ideologies
This article uses a close pragmatic analysis to examine three discourses of the menopause, each with identifiably different health and lifespan ideologies, each used to further its own set of economic and/or political agendas. We argue that these texts have potentially powerful influential effects on women's interpretations of their own `change of life'. Discourse 1 (the `pharmaceutical' discourse) is represented by pharmaceutical brochures, whic…
Contexts of Accommodation
Formulating age
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
Intergenerational Discourse
Micro-analyses of talk in context can expose people's activation and evaluation of age categorisations, as personal and social identities, during interactional exchanges. In this paper, we briefly overview our own discourse analytic research, which has been concerned with the management of age and health identities in across- and within- generation talk. In the body of the paper, we then document the operation of identity-management processes in …
Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times
This paper suggests a competing discourses formulation for ecolinguistics. In relation to the issue of ozone depletion and consequent acknowledged health hazards, more general environmental concerns are opposed by traditional, recreational discourses which assert that sun-use is `fun'. A more contemporary discourse which legitimizes, commodifies and technologizes sun-use is another opposition force. We trace these discourse formations in a sample…
Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Potentially transgressive or "unsafe" narrative themes offer a means of achieving intimacy among speakers. We examine 3 extracts from leisure-time conversations among different groups of young friends, where stories are told on topics that are conventionally considered "rude" or risqueacute-the defiling of food, vomiting, and watching animals having sex. The analysis shows how speakers in various ways negotiate their own local orientations to the…
Talking about Generation X
In response to a recent explosion of media attention to so-called Generation X, the authors investigated youngpeoples'responses to media constructions of this generational category label. Twenty-six volunteers aged 19-23 participated in six audiotaped focus group discussions A discourse analytic perspective enables the authors to explore how these young participants worked together to negotiate their generational identity and their position in th…
Negotiating sun use
Discourse, identity and change in mid-to-late life
The papers in this special issue contribute to the growing body of research on sociolinguistic and discursive interpretations of mid and later life by investigating some of the identity affordances and constraints associated with ‘being middle-aged’ or ‘being old’. The papers here offer qualitative, contextually based analyses of a broad range of data and use various methodological and theoretical perspectives: narrative theory, critical pragmati…
Politeness in context
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Elderly self-disclosure
Accommodating the elderly
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
Contexts of Accommodation
The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our language and communication patterns toward others. Since accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been elaborated and expanded many times. In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanati…
Accommodation theory
Introduction When academic theorizing addresses everyday communication phenomena, there are losses as well as gains. Research may, selectively or otherwise, partially represent the full subtlety of contextualized interaction. Methodological constraints may impose their own selectivity, so that we tend to access the accessible and learn what is most readily learnable. The real-time nature of programmatic research will reflect epistemological shift…
Formulating age
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
Intergenerational Discourse
Micro-analyses of talk in context can expose people's activation and evaluation of age categorisations, as personal and social identities, during interactional exchanges. In this paper, we briefly overview our own discourse analytic research, which has been concerned with the management of age and health identities in across- and within- generation talk. In the body of the paper, we then document the operation of identity-management processes in …
How are you
Since its introduction by Malinowski in the 1920s, "phatic communion" has often been appealed to as a concept in sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, and communication, typically taken to designate a conventionalized and desemanticized discourse mode or "type." But anegotiationperspective, following the conversation analysis tradition of research on greetings and troubles telling, fits the discursive realities better. Phaticity is a multidime…
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Discourses of ageism and anti-ageism
Language, Society and the Elderly
Contexts of Accommodation
Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations
Institutional discourse typically involves a dialectic between institutional (e.g. medical) frames and socio-relational frames for talk. The paper draws on audio-recorded data from a geriatric outpatients clinic in the UK to show how doctors and elderly patients collaborate in and negotiate the work of entering an apparently medical frame of talk. Particular attention is paid to sequences involving how are you?-type elicitations. Social and medic…
Dating Advertisements
Dating advertisements are the textual products of a discourse of commodification and marketization. They are certainly a prime site for witnessing the textual construction of self- and other-identities in the service of developing new relationships. Furthermore, close examination of a corpus of written and spoken dating advertisements reveals advertisers' resources for resisting full-blown self-commodification. Individuals can, to some extent, ex…
Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times
This paper suggests a competing discourses formulation for ecolinguistics. In relation to the issue of ozone depletion and consequent acknowledged health hazards, more general environmental concerns are opposed by traditional, recreational discourses which assert that sun-use is `fun'. A more contemporary discourse which legitimizes, commodifies and technologizes sun-use is another opposition force. We trace these discourse formations in a sample…
Talking about Generation X
In response to a recent explosion of media attention to so-called Generation X, the authors investigated youngpeoples'responses to media constructions of this generational category label. Twenty-six volunteers aged 19-23 participated in six audiotaped focus group discussions A discourse analytic perspective enables the authors to explore how these young participants worked together to negotiate their generational identity and their position in th…
Articulations of Same-sex Desire
A survey of self and other categorisation in 200 lesbian and gay male dating advertisement texts, taken from current magazines and newspapers, reveals the discursive means by which homosexual advertisers in our corpus commodify and market sexual/self-gendered identities. Detailed analysis of a sub-sample of the advertisements allows us to trace the discourse processes and conventions used in formulating identity in such texts. We interpret these …
Negotiating sun use
Readings of extrapolated contexts
Past the “Perfect Kind of Age”? Styling Selves and Relationships in Over-50s Dating Advertisements
Dating ads are a revealing site for analyzing age-identity negotiations. Through a distributional survey and qualitative analyses of older people's ads, this paper shows how advertisers respond to, and negotiate, normative constraints on their communicative task in this genre. Older people's dating ads tend to express restrained, modest, and nonsexual relational goals. Their references to age often are mitigated. Appearance is given less emphasis…
Egg Seeks Sperm. End of Story…? Articulating Gay Parenting in Small Ads for Reproductive Partners
Gay men and lesbians place small advertisements in the gay press to find reproductive partners. Analyses of over 200 such `mating ads' reveal that advertisers use a range of discursive methods to manage the potential gay parenting identities. We examine how gay male and lesbian advertisers adapt the formulaic format of the classified ad by exploiting the intertextual resonance of the job ad and the dating ad in order to construe reproductive iden…
Discourse, the Body, and Identity
Conflicting discourses, shifting ideologies
This article uses a close pragmatic analysis to examine three discourses of the menopause, each with identifiably different health and lifespan ideologies, each used to further its own set of economic and/or political agendas. We argue that these texts have potentially powerful influential effects on women's interpretations of their own `change of life'. Discourse 1 (the `pharmaceutical' discourse) is represented by pharmaceutical brochures, whic…
Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Potentially transgressive or "unsafe" narrative themes offer a means of achieving intimacy among speakers. We examine 3 extracts from leisure-time conversations among different groups of young friends, where stories are told on topics that are conventionally considered "rude" or risqueacute-the defiling of food, vomiting, and watching animals having sex. The analysis shows how speakers in various ways negotiate their own local orientations to the…
Small Talk
Volume 36, Number1, 2003 Contents: J. Coupland, Talk: Social Functions. J. Thornborrow, The Organization of Primary School Children's On-Task and Off-Task Talk in a Group Setting. M. McCarthy, Talking Back: Small Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation. J. Holmes, Talk at Work: Potential Problems for workers With an Intellectual Disability. J. Coupland, A. Jaworski, Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works)