INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION - EVALUATIONS AND ANALYSES OF TALK EXCHANGED BETWEEN OLDER ADULTS AND YOUNGER ADULTS

This special journal issue focuses on potential barriers and facilitat ors of successful intergenerational encounters. Communication Accommod ation Theory has provided a useful and broad-based conceptual framewor k for understanding the nature of both appropriate and inappropriate m odifications made in intergenerational communication. The first three articles concern the nature, eliciting conditions, and interpretations of patronizing speech. The last three articles shift from the manner of communication to an examination of the content of communication bet ween young and older adults through discourse analysis.