Embodied Rhetorics
Subtitle: Disability in Language and Culture
Contributors: Martha Stoddard Holmes (Contributor); Catherine Jean Prendergast (Contributor); Miriamne Ara Krummel (Contributor); G. Thomas Couser (Contributor); Nirmala Erevelles (Contributor); Brenda Jo Brueggemann (Contributor); Deshae E Lott (Contributor); Hannah Joyner (Contributor); Ellen L Barton (Contributor); Rod Michalko (Contributor); Tanya Titchkosky (Contributor); Emily Nye (Contributor); Beth Franks (Contributor); James C Wilson (Editor); Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson (Editor)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: October 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780809323937
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Rhetoric; Social Science; People with disabilities in li; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Sociolinguistics; Literature: Classics; Physical Impairments; People with disabilities in literature; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Handicapped; Social conditions; Education; People with disabilities; People with disabilities in ma
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.