| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 104 === As the development of medicine and the influence of low birth rate, the rate of the elders is rising up yearly. Taiwan will be aging society in 2018, so lot of attention was given to the issues of the elderly. For example, how people feel about the elders and how people understand about the aging in the society? From the analysis of daily speaking, it is easy to find that there is lot of negative vocabulary in daily conversation because of ageism. Thus, it shows that people always have the negative stereotype toward the elder. The impact of literature on the society is huge, because there are many readers to read the literature in every day. Is there any negative stereotype in the literature? Few studies focus on this issue, so this study chose Taiwanese Nativist Literature as the sample to analyze. The content analysis was employed to analyze the elders’ image, and examining the ageism in Taiwanese Nativist Literature. The analysis categories included “ the roles’ gender ”, “ the roles’ character ”, “ the daily activities ”, “ the appearance and movement ”, “ the generational interaction ”, “ the creation of image ”, and “ the elders’ personality ”. The study found that the elders were written as healthy and positive appearance in Taiwanese Nativist Literature, but their roles are always within the family system. Furthermore, the rate of appearance and the importance of the role about older women were affected by the sexism and ageism together. As mentioned above, it’s easy for people to have wrong understanding towards the elders. From this study, we suggest readers to read literature with the new perspective and the authors to write stories without ageism. Then people will have more positive understanding and attitudes towards the elderly, and the society will be more friendly to the elders.
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