Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Language and social processes,
2192-2128 ;
2
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Language and social processes (Mouton de Gruyter) ; 2.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Bodies and communication -- pt. 2. Bodies and cognitive "impairments" -- pt. 3. Bodies and chronic ailments -- pt. 4. Bodies and body performances. |
Summary |
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. Calling attention to a host of discourses - biomedical, societal, poststructuralist - 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." |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Communication in medicine.
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Communication in medicine. |
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Human body and language.
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Human body and language. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
McPherron, Paul, 1975-
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi, 1965-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Language, body, and health. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 (DLC) 2011042272 |
ISBN |
9781934078204 (electronic book) |
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1934078204 (electronic book) |
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1283396327 |
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9781283396325 |
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1934078190 |
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9781934078198 |
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9781934078198 (alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9786613396327 |
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