Language, Body, and Health.
Title:
Language, Body, and Health.
Author:
McPherron, Paul.
ISBN:
9781934078204
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Series:
Language and Social Processes [LSP] ; v.2
Language and Social Processes [LSP]
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1. Language, body, and health: An introduction -- Part I. Bodies and communication -- Chapter 2. Community, controversy, and compromise: The language of visual impairment -- Chapter 3. Rebuilding the body: Biomedical and societal discourses and the decision to perform a living-donor organ transplant surgery -- Chapter 4. Reading "intentions": Communication challenges for parents of children with autism and partial hearing -- Part 2. Bodies and cognitive "impairments" -- Chapter 5. Intentional stance and Lucinda Greystone: Embodied memory in conversational reminiscence by a speaker with Alzheimer's disease -- Chapter 6. Body in autism: A view from social interaction -- Part 3. Bodies and chronic ailments -- Chapter 7. Negotiating the invisible: Two women making sense of chronic illness through narrative -- Chapter 8. "Training your taste buds": The language of success in diabetes "self-efficacy" -- Part 4. Bodies and body performances -- Chapter 9. The discursive construction of the female body in family planning pamphlets -- Chapter 10. Blood talk: A discursive perspective on transcultural identity and mental health -- Chapter 11. Body acts: Contemporary Chinese body performance, critical narrative, and somatic writing -- Chapter 12. Bodies and applied linguistics: The challenge of theory -- Index.
Abstract:
The series contributes to the development of promising new approaches to the sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and linguistic anthropological study of social issues that centrally involve language. In particular, while still addressing the fundamental insights gleaned from variationist studies, foremost among which is the open-ended, heterogeneous nature of human language in all its varieties, it focuses on new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, in the social and cultural study of language that go beyond the more traditional concerns of sociolinguistics (for example, social networks, communities of practice, global population movements, the historical and present-day significance of demography for situations of language contact, the spatial dimensions of language, language and ideology, new dialect formation, historical sociolinguistics). The series includes monographs as well as edited volumes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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