@article{ref1,
title="Constructing the dead: retrospective sensemaking in eulogies",
journal="Death studies",
year="2016",
author="Davis, Christine S. and Quinlan, Margaret M. and Baker, Debra K.",
volume="40",
number="5",
pages="316-328",
abstract="Eulogies serve a sensemaking function of identity construction-both for the deceased and for the survivors. This work examines the communicative construction of identity in eulogies and shows how eulogia discourse affirms and reconstructs our relational identity through communication. We extend scholarship on eulogies by using relational communication theories to investigate how eulogic discourse functions as identity construction, considering eulogies of ordinary people, and exploring the gendered nature of eulogies. We discuss how eulogies are specific ritualized forms of communication in which the bereaved focus on self-identity as they articulate their experience of grief.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="10.1080/07481187.2016.1141261",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2016.1141261"
}