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Language, Body, and Health.
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 peop...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton USA,
2011.
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| Colección: | Language and Social Processes LSP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Chapter 1. Language, body, and health: An introduction; Part I. Bodies and communication; Chapter 2. Community, controversy, and compromise: The language of visual impairment; Chapter 3. Rebuilding the body: Biomedical and societal discourses and the decision to perform a living-donor organ transplant surgery; Chapter 4. Reading "intentions": Communication challenges for parents of children with autism and partial hearing; Part 2. Bodies and cognitive "impairments."
- Chapter 5. Intentional stance and Lucinda Greystone: Embodied memory in conversational reminiscence by a speaker with Alzheimer's diseaseChapter 6. Body in autism: A view from social interaction; Part 3. Bodies and chronic ailments; Chapter 7. Negotiating the invisible: Two women making sense of chronic illness through narrative; Chapter 8. "Training your taste buds": The language of success in diabetes "self-efficacy"; Part 4. Bodies and body performances; Chapter 9. The discursive construction of the female body in family planning pamphlets.
- Chapter 10. Blood talk: A discursive perspective on transcultural identity and mental healthChapter 11. Body acts: Contemporary Chinese body performance, critical narrative, and somatic writing; Chapter 12. Bodies and applied linguistics: The challenge of theory; Index.