Language and the Body

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-29145-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics

Language is produced through and shaped by bodies, and it is through language that bodies are expressed, understood, and recognized.

Language and the Body places this relationship at the center of inquiry, bringing together language research and disability studies, two fields rarely in sustained conversation. The volume develops this conversation through three interconnected dimensions. The first, language as embodied experience, shows how language emerges from particular ways of being in the world and extends through the technologies, people, and settings that carry it. The second, language as strategic tool, examines how speakers use linguistic and bodily resources to make invisible conditions visible and legible to institutions that assess them. The third, language as discursive practice, traces how talk creates and transforms the social meanings attached to different bodies. Chapters address topics including augmentative and alternative communication, special education, dementia, chronic pain, disability accommodation, gender-based violence, sexuality, body norms, and neurodivergence. Contributors draw on discourse analysis, ethnography, prosodic analysis, and participatory research across multiple languages and countries.

This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, disability studies, health communication, medical humanities, and gender and sexuality studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Torres, Peter Joseph

Ramanathan, Vaidehi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Understanding the Relationship Between Language and the Body Peter Joseph Torres and Vaidehi Ramanathan, Part I. Language as Embodied Experience: Reflecting, Innovating, and Expanding the Body, 2. A Non-Dualistic Theory of Languaging: Eye-Tracking AAC and Extended Embodiment Usree Bhattacharya, 3. The Dynamics of Embodied Crip Time Through the Pedagogic Body Christina Hedman, Liz Adams Lyngbäck, and Enni Paul, 4. Metapragmatic Reflexivity and the Self in Alzheimer’s Disease: Re-Reading Sabat Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez and Robert W. Schrauf, Part II. Language as a Strategic Tool: Communicating Invisible Body Conditions, 5. Communicating Invisible Body Conditions: Voice Quality and Chronic Pain in Opioid Discourse Peter Joseph Torres, 6. The Myth of Disability Deservedness: The Semiotics and Narratives of Disability Experience Stephen Eyman, 7. Felt into Being: Language, Affect, and the Gendered Body Merve Özçelik and Tommaso M. Milani, Part III. Language as Discursive Practice: Creating and Transforming Body Identities and Meaning, 8. Linguistic Constructions of Neurodivergent Children in Denmark Katrine Kehlet Bechsgaard, 9. Language and Body Image Across Gay Male Subcultures Rusty Barrett, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Joseph Torres is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at Arizona State University, USA. He has authored numerous publications on discourse and health, including articles in Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Pragmatics, and Discourse Studies.

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor Emerita in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Davis, USA. She has authored and edited numerous publications on language, health, and disabilities, including Language, Memory and Remembering (2018) and Alzheimer Discourse (1997).