Talking to older Malaysians: A case study

Chye, David Yoong Soon; David, Maya Khemlani

doi:10.1515/multi.2006.011

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2006

DOI: 10.1515/multi.2006.011

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Talking to older Malaysians: A case study

David Yoong Soon Chye

Maya Khemlani David

Abstract: Previous studies (e. g. Macionis 2001 and Gilleard and Higgs 2000) have shown that the elderly are frequently subject to ageism (a form of social stratification which discriminates groups of people by their ages) in industrialised societies.

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Power, solidarity, and sajiao in dementia care

Lin

2024

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While scholars in the sociolinguistics of aging have shown that communication in eldercare is characterized by the predominance of infantilizing speech or elderspeak, sajiao, a self-infantilizing speech, has not been examined in this context. Further, current research on sajiao has focused primarily on young women. How sajiao is used in intergenerational communication involving adults and older adults is rarely examined. Drawing on two years of ethnography in two adult day centers in Taiwan, this paper examines the negotiation of power and solidarity through sajiao in dementia care. Sajiao is used for both task-oriented/transactional goals and interpersonal/relational goals and often serves multifunctional purposes to influence and to connect simultaneously. The intent and effect of sajiao as strategies of persuasion and influence (that is, power) and/or strategies of engagement and connection (that is, solidarity) is jointly constructed and negotiated. The multiple data sources of this longitudinal study—including ethnographic observations, interviews, and video-recordings—allow for richly contextualized interpretations of interactional episodes and reflective accounts, revealing a complex picture of power and solidarity negotiated through sajiao. This study contributes to research on eldercare communication by demonstrating the ambiguity and polysemy of discursive strategies in eldercare communication with regard to power and solidarity.

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Power, solidarity, and sajiao in dementia care

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Overaccommodation in a Singapore eldercare facility

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Seilhamer

Chee

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Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Numerous studies have shown that some speech accommodation in interactions with the elderly can aid communication. Overaccommodaters, however, employing such features as high pitch, exaggerated prosody, and child-like forms of address, often demean, infantilize, and patronize elderly interlocutors rather than facilitate comprehension. According to the Communicative Predicament of Aging model, communication practices are determined by stereotypes of aging that are triggered in the minds of those interacting with the elderly. These stereotypes vary from culture to culture, and in Singapore, negative stereotypes of aging are prevalent, existing alongside traditional Confucian-influenced positive stereotypes. To date, no studies have examined whether or how stereotypes of aging might be manifested in interactions between younger and older Singaporeans. This investigation involved participant observation in a Singapore eldercare facility. Overaccommodation was indeed found to be employed by carers and varied qualitatively depending on the physical and cognitive abilities of the elderly, with healthy elderly addressed as one one might address school-aged children and those with dementia addressed as infants. These results provide some initial insights into an issue that is of extremely relevant to Singaporean society, given the city state's rapidly aging population.

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Talking to older Malaysians: A case study

Abstract: Previous studies (e. g. Macionis 2001 and Gilleard and Higgs 2000) have shown that the elderly are frequently subject to ageism (a form of social stratification which discriminates groups of people by their ages) in industrialised societies.

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Power, solidarity, and sajiao in dementia care

Power, solidarity, and sajiao in dementia care

Overaccommodation in a Singapore eldercare facility

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