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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461414903321

Autore

Silverman Chloe

Titolo

Understanding autism [[electronic resource] ] : parents, doctors, and the history of a disorder / / Chloe Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-29070-7

9786613290700

1-4008-4039-2

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

618.9285882

Soggetti

Autism in children

Parents of autistic children

Autistic children - Family relationships

Autism in children - Treatment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Love as an Analytic Tool -- Part One -- 1. Research Programs, "Autistic Disturbances," and Human Difference -- 2. Love Is Not Enough: Bruno Bettelheim, Infantile Autism, and Psychoanalytic Childhoods -- 3. Expert Amateurs: Raising and Treating Children with Autism -- Interlude. Parents Speak: The Art of Love and the Ethics of Care -- Part two -- 4. Brains, Pedigrees, and Promises: Lessons from the Politics of Autism Genetics -- 5. Desperate and Rational: Parents and Professionals in Autism Research -- 6. Pandora's Box: Immunizations, Parental Obligations, and Toxic Facts -- Conclusion. What the World Needs Now: Learning About and Acting on Autism Research -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the



role of emotion--specifically, of parental love--in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, parent networks, and treatment conferences. She examines the love and labor of parents, who play a role in developing--in conjunction with medical experts--new forms of treatment and therapy for their children. While biomedical knowledge is dispersed through an emotionally neutral, technical language that separates experts from laypeople, parental advocacy and activism call these distinctions into question. Silverman reveals how parental care has been a constant driver in the volatile field of autism research and treatment, and has served as an inspiration for scientific change. Recognizing the importance of parental knowledge and observations in treating autism, this book reveals that effective responses to the disorder demonstrate the mutual interdependence of love and science.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821617903321

Autore

Kageyama Tarō <1949->

Titolo

Handbook of Japanese lexicon and word formation / / edited by Taro Kageyama, Hideki Kishimoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0081-3

1-61451-209-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (748 p.)

Collana

Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics ; ; 3

Disciplina

495.65/92

Soggetti

Japanese language - Word formation

Japanese language - Lexicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Vocabulary strata and word formation processes -- 2. Lexical categories -- 3. Sino-Japanese words -- 4. Mimetics -- 5. The morphology of English loanwords -- 6. Word structure and headedness -- 7. Noun-compounding and noun-incorporation -- 8. Verb-compounding and verb-incorporation -- 9. Conversion and deverbal compound nouns -- 10. Derivational affixation in the lexicon and syntax -- 11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs -- 12. Light verb constructions with verbal nouns -- 13. Inflection -- 14. Lexical integrity and the morphology syntax interface -- 15. Lexical meaning and temporal aspect -- 16. Stative and existential/possessive predicates -- 17. Agent nominals -- 18. Complement-taking nouns -- 19. Idioms -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.