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Bodies and language : health, ailments, disabilities / Vaidehi Ramanathan

Author
Ramanathan, Vaidehi, 1965-
Published
Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
ix, 136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Contents
1. Introduction: Why Bodies Matter -- 2. On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes -- 3. Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers -- 4. Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns -- 5. Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices -- 6. Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/Disability-Related Research -- 7. Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change.
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ISBN
9781847692368 (hbk : alk. paper)
1847692362 (hbk : alk. paper)
9781847692351 (pbk : alk. paper)
1847692354 (pbk : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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