Bodies and language
Subtitle: health, ailments, disabilities
By: Vaidehi Ramanathan.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847692368; 9781847692351
Subjects: Social medicine; Sociolinguistics; Sociology of disability; Kinesics; Disease -- psychology; Human Body; Language; Posture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why bodies matter; title: On metaprescriptive utterances : cancer, breasts, and gazes; title: Scripting selves : (auto) bio-graphical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers; title: Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments : diabetes, epilepsy, and body breakdowns; title: Communication challenges : autism, partial hearing, and parental choices; title: Texts and meaning-making : critical revisitations in disability-related research; title: Critical ailment research in applied socio-linguistics : power, perception, and social change.