Bodies and language : health, ailments, disabilities /: health, ailments, disabilities. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vaidehi Ramanathan.
• Other Names: Ramanathan, Vaidehi, 1965-
• Contents: Introduction : why bodies matter -- On metaprescriptive utterances : cancer, breasts and gazes -- Scripting selves : (auto)biographical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers -- Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments : (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy and body breakdowns -- Communication challenges : autism, partial hearing and parental choices -- Texts and meaning-making : critical revisitations in ailment/disability-related research -- Critical ailment research in applied sociolinguistics : power, perception and social change.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (152 pages)
• Subjects: 362.1; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; Social medicine; Sociolinguistics; Sociology of disability; Kinesics; Disease -- psychology; Human Body; Language; Posture; Social discrimination
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847693877; 1847693873
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.