Drawing upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography and contextual studies, Corker (deaf and disabilities studies, U. of Central Lancashire) and French (department of health studies, Brunel U.) present 20 contributions that emphasize the multidimensional and multifunctional nature of disability language. They analyze the role of language in struggle and transformation in power relations and in the engineering of social and cultural change. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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