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COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GENERATIONS IN STYLE PERSPECTIVE

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Kita M.

Stylistyka

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2006

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vol. 15

295-317

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The author is interested in verbal communication problems between generations - the young and the old. The opposition US vs. THEM is reflected in language and its communicative use, deepening the distance between the generations. An exclusion of children and youth typical for previous centuries is no longer true. It was replaced by a progressive cultural marginalization of old age people. The differences between the language of the young and the old are manifested on the lexical, phraseological and stylistic levels. Having enumerated the language, stylistic and communicative problems of the theoretical and methodological nature, the author presents three possibilities of inter-generation communication: (1) Each of the interactants maintains one's own way of speaking and then the communication becomes more difficult or even blocked - confrontation style. (2) Both parties present a mutual compromise tendencies if the aim of the communication act is a mutual understanding - consensual style. (3) The interactants adopt their interlocutor's style - adoptive style (chameleon style).

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Współczesne społeczeństwo polskie przez pryzmat międzypokoleniowego dziedziczenia

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Borowicz R.

Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja

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2012

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issue 3(59)

137-148

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Demographic cycles – phenomena that consist of intertwined baby booms and baby busts – have been observed for several centuries. Its consequence is that numerically big generations at the child-bearing age cause high birth rate and the other way round. These regularities are significantly disrupted by crucial historical events - first of all by world wars, but also by increased emigration waves. Taking into account modern society we focus on present times. Obviously, it is only a metaphor because it is difficult to be restricted only to static presentations while talking about problems connected with the human life span. In order to do that three temporal dimensions are needed – that is also past and future. Only in this way the directions and pace of social changes can be presented.

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Mezigenerační solidarita a gender (pečující dcery a pečující synové)

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Pridalova M.

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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2006

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vol. 7

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issue 1

1-5

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This review study deals with a phenomenon of adult children's caregiving for their aging parents and focuses on gender themes in this field. Findings of empirical and theoretical studies mostly of British and American authors are introduced. Based on both foreign and Czech literature sources the authoress provides a general view of the filial responsibility attitudes and the actual behavior. Starting from the fact that women (daughters in particular) form the majority of all caregivers, she presents some of the explanations for this state (socialization theory, theory of men's and women's different position in labor market, same-gender preferences theory) and at the same time arguments which do not fully support them. The attention is paid to the ways how men perceive filial obligation, in what circumstances and how they participate in the care of a parent. Caregiving is mainly viewed more as a natural feature than a learnt or gained ability which is supposed to make women more appropriate candidates to undertake it. The authoress discusses the future of intergenerational solidarity in general and the possible course of changes.

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REMEMBERING POLAND, BUT NOT POLONIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL MEMORY

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Pula J. S.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

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2014

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vol. 40

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issue 1 (151)

107-118

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The leading edge of the mass migration from Poland to the USA which began in the 1870s was comprised mostly of ethnic Poles from the German-occupied partition, but these were superseded in the following decade by arrivals from the Austrian partition, who were in turn eclipsed in the latter 1890s by immigrants from the Russian-controlled regions. To the immigrants there were specific differences in regional culture, dialect, and traditions by which they clearly separated themselves into three or more groups. Thus, one of the major challenges facing immigrants was how to create a new Polish American identity from such a diverse collection of subgroups. In particular, the paper focuses on the forms of cultural and identity transmission from generation to generation. It suggests that by emphasizing Old World customs and celebrations, i.e. by remembering Poland, but not Polonia, the immigrants have failed to create a distinctly Polonian identity independent of Poland.

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When Age Matters: Patterns of Participative and Communicative Practices in the Czech Republic

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Macková A., Macháčková H., Macek J., Šerek J.

Communication Today

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2016

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vol. 7

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issue 2

46–65

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After a long history, research on the relation between participative and communicative practices was revived in the late 1990s because of the proliferation of new media. New studies have taken into account both online and offline participation and the ability of new media to provide citizens with easier access to information and a broader repertoire of actions. In this article, which is based on a representative survey of the adult Czech population and a survey of Czech adolescents, we address participative and communicative practices as intertwined sets that are typically preferred by certain groups of citizens. As media-related and political practices usually vary due to generational and historical experience, the aim is to discover whether people with similar generational backgrounds and with similar repertoires of action manifest similar sets of communication practices, i.e. similar media ensembles. Hence, we build this study on the assumption that the political- and media-related agencies are structured by historical experience as well as by biographical experience linked with life-cycle phases. Using cluster analysis, we focus on the various participative and communicative practices employed by three distinct adult generational groups and by contemporary adolescents, all of whom experienced the process of socialization in their own specific historical contexts.

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A CASE STUDY OF AGEISM IN POLITICAL DEBATES: ARE SOCIAL MEDIA A LATENT SOURCE OF GENERATIONAL HATRED?

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Vidovićová L., Honelová M.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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2018

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vol. 66

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issue 2

203 – 220

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This paper discusses how negative stereotypes, cultural conflicts and tensions related to age and generational membership are used in election campaigns. The social media are presented here as a venue where the political values are discursively paired with age and generational membership and perpetuate risks of an increase in ageism and generational conflict in symbolic universes. It presents a case study of YouTube video political campaigning and Facebook site commentaries to draw a picture of negative connotations used to build the “we” versus “them” generational categories which may result in further deepening the ageist moods in Czech society. It further shows, how these discursive practices may influence the perception of intergenerational relations in our society, but it also argues that they may have only limited influence over the actual behaviour of both younger and older in elections and political representations. The conclusion calls for deeper understanding of connections between generational conflict, age, and voting behaviour.

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