Bodies and language
Subtitle: health, ailments, disabilities
By: Vaidehi Ramanathan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781847692368; 9781847692351
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why bodies matter; title: On metaprescriptive utterances : cancer, breasts and gazes; title: Scripting selves : (auto)biographical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers; title: Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments : (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy and body breakdowns; title: Communication challenges : autism, partial hearing and parental choices; title: Texts and meaning-making : critical revisitations in ailment/disability-related research; title: Critical ailment research in applied sociolinguistics : power, perception and social change.