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Title Language, body, and health / edited by Paul McPherron, Vaidehi Ramanathan.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Language and social processes, 2192-2128 ; 2
Language and social processes (Mouton de Gruyter) ; 2.
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.
Communication in medicine.
Human body and language.
Human body and language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author McPherron, Paul, 1975-
Ramanathan, Vaidehi, 1965-
Other Form: Print version: Language, body, and health. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 (DLC) 2011042272
ISBN 9781934078204 (electronic book)
1934078204 (electronic book)
1283396327
9781283396325
1934078190
9781934078198
9781934078198 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613396327