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.
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"Focusing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, this book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of 'abnormality, ' 'disability' and 'impairments' and ways in which they emerge through language"--Provided by publisher.
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