Intergenerational Communication Across the Life Span

This work aims to bring under one cover research from various disciplines concerned with intergenerational communication framed by several theoretical perspectives drawn from the communication discipline. Recent publications on intergenerational relationships have provided a demographic and structural sociological analysis of intergenerational contact. Here, however, the authors move the study of intergenerational contact closer to the actual participants, to what happens within intergenerational interaction, and to how people evaluate their intergenerational experiences across the lifespan.