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Vaidehi Ramanathan Bodies and Language (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Bodies and Language
- Publication Name
- Bodies and Language : Health, Ailments, Disabilities
- Title
- Bodies and Language
- Subtitle
- Health, Ailments, Disabilities
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1847692354
- EAN
- 9781847692351
- ISBN
- 9781847692351
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Language & Reference
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 26/11/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
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This book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of 'normal' bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of 'abnormality, ' 'disability' and 'impairments.' It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create 'meanings' about bodies and 'normalcy, ' and the importance of remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or claim to do.
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Publisher
Multilingual Matters
ISBN-10
1847692354
ISBN-13
9781847692351
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78445564
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Bodies and Language : Health, Ailments, Disabilities
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
152 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
P40.5
Reviews
Each of the seven chapters in this short, quietly explosive book leads the reader further away from the details of constructions of identity, illness, and disability and into a thicket of new and disturbing questions about social and linguistic constructions of ailments and disabilities in general, particularly those that are not physically apparent...New questions grow steadily from those Ramanathan raises; this review can barely scratch the surface., Over the last couple of years, Ramanathan has played a leading role in developing a critical and nuanced approach to language and health complementing the dominant psycholinguistic approaches to health and the body. In this book she demonstrates her expertise with a balanced review of literature on the body from different disciplines from different parts of the world. Her sensitivity to perspectives on the body grounded in diverse settings enriches her book. The book is written in a very accessible and is theory rich which will clearly enhance its value to a large community of readers across the globe. I strongly recommend the book to scholars interested in the rapidly developing field of the body, language and health., This truly fascinating book draws our attention to the materiality of bodies and illness while analyzing manifold personal accounts and experiences. Although we all experience our bodies and feelings via language and although our feelings are socially categorized and 'disciplined', materiality as the author rightly argues and indeed proves - remains salient. Illness and disabilities are not only discursive constructions, they impinge on human beings in very different material ways. This both theoretically and empirically innovative research presents the range of hegemonic and alternative reactions to ailment, disability and body breakdowns in our societies, reaching from gendered forms of exclusion to policies and 'dis-citizenship'., In the field of applied linguistics, health issues have traditionally been examined from an outsider perspective, as something that happens to others, and is negotiated in conversations between disembodied doctors and patients. Ramanathan's ground-breaking book turns the scholarly gaze inwards reminding us that our collective sense of normalcy is but an illusion and our bodies are a material reality. Weaving critical, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories together with first-person experiences of illness and disability, the author analyzes ways in which bodily and linguistic breakdowns are discursively constructed by the experiencers and ways in which societal discourses dehumanize our bodies. Raising the veil of silence that until now surrounded body issues and body functions in our field, this profound, touching, and deeply human book creates a new discursive space and provides strong impetus for further inquiry into the relationship between bodies, languages, and identities.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why bodies matter Chapter 2: On metaprescriptive utterances: cancer, breasts, and gazes Chapter 3: Scripting selves: (auto) bio-graphical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers Chapter 4: Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments: diabetes, epilepsy and body breakdowns Chapter 5: Communication challenges: autism, partial hearing and parental choices Chapter 6: Texts and meaning-making: critical revisitations in disability-related research Chapter 7: Critical ailment research in applied socio-linguistics: power, perception, and social change
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, People with Disabilities, Body Language & Nonverbal Communication, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Disease & Health Issues
Lccn
2009-033793
Dewey Decimal
362.1
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
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