Embodied Rhetorics
Subtitle: Disability in Language and Culture
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780809323920
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Rhetoric; Sociolinguistics; Physical Impairments; Rhetoric (General); Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged; Social Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Social conditions; Language; Handicapped; Education; People with disabilities; People with disabilities in literature
First sentence: At first glance, Simi Linton's call to "reassign" a sociopolitical meaning to disability might seem to be an example of postmodernist social (re)construction at its most excessive, identity politics carried to an extreme, language presuming to alter fact.