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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787258503321

Autore

Grue Jan <1981->

Titolo

Disability and discourse analysis / / by Jan Grue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-315-57730-5

1-317-15043-0

1-317-15042-2

1-4724-3293-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary disability studies

Disciplina

305.9/080141

Soggetti

Disability studies

Discourse analysis

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

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1 Why Discourse Analysis? Disability and Language; 2 Models, Theories, and Perspectives: A Discourse Approach to Disability and Disability Studies; 3 Medical Discourses of Disability; 4 Political and Economic Discourses and the Limits of Language; 5 Counting as Disabled: Discourses of Identity; 6 Media Discourse and Popular Representation; A Final Note; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes dis