Isbn: 9781934078198 - language, body, and health (language and social processes [lsp], 2) (6 Ergebnisse)

Gb. Zustand: Sehr gut. XVI, 320 S. mit graph. Darst. Tadelloses Exemplar - Inhalt: Language, body, and health: An introduction, Paul McPherron and Vaidehi Ramanathan -- Bodies and communication: Community, controversy, and compromise: The language of visual -- Impairment, David Bolt -- Rebuilding the body: Biomedical and societal discourses and the -- decision to perform a living-donor organ transplant surgery, Paul McPherron -- Reading ''intentions'': Communication challenges for parents of -- children with autism and partial hearing, Vaidehi Ramanathan -- Bodies and cognitive ''impairments": Intentional stance and Lucinda Greystone: Embodied memory in conversational reminiscence by a speaker with Alzheimer's disease, Boyd Davis -- Body in autism: A view from social interaction, Olga Solomon -- Bodies and chronic ailments: Negotiating the invisible: Two women making sense of chronic illness through narrative, Hanako Okada -- ''Training your taste buds'': The language of success in diabetes -- ''self-efficacy'', Catherine E. Davies, Linda L. Knol, and Lori Turner -- Bodies and body performances -- The discursive construction of the female body in family planning -- Pamphlets, Busi Makoni and Sinfree Makoni -- Blood talk: A discursive perspective on transcultural identity and -- mental health, Matthew T. Prior -- Body acts: Contemporary Chinese body performance, critical -- narrative, and somatic writing, Fei Shi -- Bodies and applied linguistics: The challenge of theory, Tim McNamara. ISBN 9781934078198 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 554.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp. xvi + 320.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 280 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This edited book addresses ways in which 'bodies' conceived broadly - get languaged, and ways in which ideas of 'normalcy' and 'normal' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or 'unusual' bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present volume represents a departure from other works in at least two ways. First, it brings in discourses around bodies per se into language-related research, a realm that previous research has not directly engaged. Second, it ushers in discussions about bodies by critically addressing the language by which experiences around bodily breakdowns and ailments occur. Calling attention to a host of discourses - biomedical, societal, poststructuralist - and drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, critical theories, ethnographically gathered materials, and extant data, the chapters pierce the general veil of silence that we have collectively drawn regarding how some of our most intimate body (dis)functions impact our everyday living and sense of 'normalcy'.…

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