Disability discourse

Editors:
CORKER Mairian, FRENCH Sally
Publisher:
Open University Press
Publication year:
1999
Pagination:
238p.,bibliog.
Place of publication:
Buckingham

Draws on personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography, and contextual studies to emphasise the multi dimensional and multifunctional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability and to locate disability more firmly within contemporary mainstream social and cultural theory.

Subject terms:
physical disabilities, sociology;
ISBN print:
0 335 20222 5

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