Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Age and language studies -- Part II. Age and social identification -- Chapter 2. Aging and sociolinguistic variation -- Chapter 3. Multiple identities of elderly Dutch-Australians -- Chapter 4. Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses into the past in Alzheimer's discourse -- Chapter 5. Alliance building and identity work in girls' talk: Conversational accomplishments of playful duelling -- Chapter 6. Discursive construction of the JPII Generation in letters of Polish children and teenagers to Pope John Paul II -- Chapter 7. Articulating male and female adolescent identitiesvia the language of personal advertisements: A Malaysian perspective -- Part III. Age in inter-generational communication -- Chapter 8. Elder abuse and neglect: A communication framework -- Chapter 9. Discursive construction of (old) age identity in Poland -- Chapter 10. Alcohol as a way of "doing" adolescence: Perspective, stance and strategy in the discourse of Italian institutions -- Chapter 11. "Old" and "young" in discourses of Polish transformations -- Chapter 12. "The regime of the adult": Textual manipulations in translated, hybrid and glocal texts for young readers -- Chapter 13. Age and the codification of the English language -- Backmatter