In this final chapter, we first bring the various insights from the preceding analytical chapters together so that an overview of our findings can be presented. This then enables us to extract connecting threads from all the separate analytical chapters and helps us to distinguish idiosyncratic findings from leitmotifs. We subsequently zoom in on the latter and argue that these general findings can be situated on various levels. These range from the specific format in which age-related discussions typically emerge in our data and the linguistic features that tend to accompany them to how the various participant roles (i.e. candidate versus recruiter) ‘typically’ construct age categories and category-bound features and activities. Additionally, we examine how age stereotypes are discursively accomplished and negotiated in the course of an interaction by the various interlocutors in their various roles. From these, we draw some final conclusions, in particular regarding the method that we used to study age stereotyping as well as what our research adds to previous studies on job interviews and on ageism in relation to other -isms (such as racism). We end with a few pieces of practical advice for everyone who is confronted with age stereotypes in job interview contexts.

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Discussion and Conclusions

  • Dorien Van De Mieroop,
  • Federica Previtali,
  • Melina De Dijn

摘要

In this final chapter, we first bring the various insights from the preceding analytical chapters together so that an overview of our findings can be presented. This then enables us to extract connecting threads from all the separate analytical chapters and helps us to distinguish idiosyncratic findings from leitmotifs. We subsequently zoom in on the latter and argue that these general findings can be situated on various levels. These range from the specific format in which age-related discussions typically emerge in our data and the linguistic features that tend to accompany them to how the various participant roles (i.e. candidate versus recruiter) ‘typically’ construct age categories and category-bound features and activities. Additionally, we examine how age stereotypes are discursively accomplished and negotiated in the course of an interaction by the various interlocutors in their various roles. From these, we draw some final conclusions, in particular regarding the method that we used to study age stereotyping as well as what our research adds to previous studies on job interviews and on ageism in relation to other -isms (such as racism). We end with a few pieces of practical advice for everyone who is confronted with age stereotypes in job interview contexts.