Bodies and language: health, ailments, disabilities
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1. Verfasser: Ramanathan, Vaidehi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol Multilingual Matters ©2010
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : why bodies matter -- On metaprescriptive utterances : cancer, breasts and gazes -- Scripting selves : (auto)biographical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers -- Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments : (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy and body breakdowns -- Communication challenges : autism, partial hearing and parental choices -- Texts and meaning-making : critical revisitations in ailment/disability-related research -- Critical ailment research in applied sociolinguistics : power, perception and social change
"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"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 136 pages)
ISBN:1847692370
9781847692375

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