Bodies and Language : Health, Ailments, Disabilities.
Title:
Bodies and Language : Health, Ailments, Disabilities.
Author:
Ramanathan, Vaidehi.
ISBN:
9781847692375
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Bodies Matter -- Chapter 2 On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes -- Chapter 3 Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers -- Chapter 4 Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns -- Chapter 5 Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices -- Chapter 6 Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/Disability-Related Research -- Chapter 7 Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Focusing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, this book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of 'abnormality,' 'disability' and 'impairments' and ways in which they emerge through language.
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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