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200 10$aBodies and language$b[electronic resource] $ehealth, ailments, disabilities /$fVaidehi Ramanathan
210   $aBristol ;$aBuffalo $cMultilingual Matters$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (146 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter 1: Introduction: Why Bodies Matter -- $tChapter 2: On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes -- $tChapter 3: Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers -- $tChapter 4: Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns -- $tChapter 5: Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices -- $tChapter 6: Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/ Disability-Related Research -- $tChapter 7: Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change -- $tReferences -- $tIndex
330   $aThis book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of ?normal? bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer?s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of ?abnormality,? ?disability? and ?impairments.? It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create ?meanings? about bodies and ?normalcy,? and the importance of remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or claim to do.
606   $aSocial medicine
606   $aSociolinguistics
606   $aSociology of disability
615  0$aSocial medicine.
615  0$aSociolinguistics.
615  0$aSociology of disability.
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