Disability and discourse analysis

by Grue, Jane

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Title Statements

Full title :Disability and discourse analysis / Jane Grue, University of Oslo, Norway.

Summary

Disability studies have engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely, discourse analysts have traditionally been concerned with social issues and fields in which asymmetric power relations, marginalization, and discrimination play a central role, for example in gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, all of which share many analytical features with disability. But although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts."--Back cover

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 140 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0367669013, 9781472432926, 1472432924, 9780367669010
oclc:on1180971685
LC Classification:HV1568.2

Why discourse analysis? Disability and language -- Models, theories, and perspectives: a discourse approach to disability and disability studies -- Medical discourses of disability -- Political and economic discourses and the limits of language -- Counting as disabled: discourses of identity -- Media discourse and popular representation -- A final note.