Bodies and language [[electronic resource] ] : health, ailments, disabilities / / Vaidehi Ramanathan
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| Autore: |
Ramanathan Vaidehi <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Bodies and language [[electronic resource] ] : health, ailments, disabilities / / Vaidehi Ramanathan
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| Pubblicazione: | Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (146 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social medicine |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Sociology of disability | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies and language |
| ISBN: | 1-84769-387-3 |
| 1-282-65705-4 | |
| 9786612657054 | |
| 1-84769-237-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456548403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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