A Gelfan'd--Dyson mapping is used to generate a one-boson realization for the
non-standard quantum deformation of sl(2,R) which directly provides its
infinite and finite dimensional irreducible representations. Tensor product
decompositions are worked out for some examples. Relations between contraction
methods and boson realizations are also explored in several contexts. So, a
class of two-boson representations for the non-standard deformation of
sl(2,R) is introduced and contracted to the non-standard quantum (1+1)
Poincar\'e representations. Likewise, a quantum extended Hopf sl(2,R)
algebra is constructed and the Jordanian q-oscillator algebra representations
are obtained from it by means of another contraction procedure.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX; two new references adde