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Social construction of the elderly in Libya: Perception, communication and discourse (revisited)
Mayouf Ali Mayouf
University of Sebha, Libya
T
he paper investigates the social status of the elderly in
Libya and how it is co-constructed in the way elderly fathers
interact and communicate with younger sons, and healthcare
providers. In Libya (Arab, Muslim and Bedouin) the elderly
occupies significant familial and social roles. The findings
reveal that elderly fathers are perceived as the family leadsser,
advisor and decision maker. In contrast, the younger sons are
perceived as always independent. Moreover, the large size of
Libyan families provides a better chance for elderly fathers
to live in extended families, and hence have more familial
integration, interaction, and activation. Interactionally, elderly
fathers manipulate conversations, use considerable overlap
and interruption to seize their turns. Elderly fathers address
their younger sons with the least preferable repair strategy, and
adopt bald and unmitigated utterances when producing their
refusals. They prefer to produce their requests to their younger
sons in ‘order’ and/or ‘order then explain’ styles. In comparison,
younger sons very rarely overlap, interrupt, or raise their voices
when conversing with their elderly fathers. Furthermore,
they do not produce verbal rejections to their elderly fathers’
demands. Interestingly, sexual and romantic issues could not be
raised between them. Finally, elderly patients and their younger
physicians tend to socialise their institutional settings by not
mentioning terms like rectum. Moreover, they summon each
other with social labels (hajji/son). The paper concludes that
the elderly in Libya interact and communicate in accordance
to their social status and perception. The subjects co-construct
the elderly status in their everyday talk-in-interaction settings.
Speaker Biography
Mayouf Ali Mayouf was born in Sebha, Libya in 1971. He received his BA in English
language from Garyounis University. In 2001, he joined Newcastle University and obtained
his PhD in Language and Communication in April 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Li
Wei. He participated in a number of conferences: Sociolinguistics Symposium 15 in
Newcastle, Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 in Limerick, the Closed Workshop in Tokyo, the
Pragmatics Conference in Gothenburg, and the IAGG2013 in Seoul. He is interested in the
field of language and the elderly and the social construction effects on interaction and
communication in the society. He is now an assistant professor in English language and
linguistics at Sebha University.
e:
mayouf1@yahoo.co.ukMayouf Ali Mayouf
, Res Rep Gynaecol Obstet, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-7366-C1-002