Disability and discourse analysis / / by Jan Grue

• Autore: Grue Jan <1981->
• Pubblicazione: Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/080141
• Soggetto topico: Disability studies; Discourse analysis
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Disability and discourse analysis
• ISBN: 1-315-57730-5; 1-317-15043-0; 1-317-15042-2; 1-4724-3293-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787258503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interdisciplinary disability studies.