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Bodies and Language 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd ii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM Full details of all our publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters. com, or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK. 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd iiii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM Bodies and Language Health, Ailments, Disabilities Vaidehi Ramanathan MULTILINGUAL MATTERS Bristol • Buffalo • Toronto 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd iiiiii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Ramanathan, Vaidehi. Bodies and Language: Health, Ailments, Disabilities/Vaidehi Ramanathan. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Social medicine. 2. Sociolinguistics. 3. Sociology of disability. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Kinesics. 2. Disease--psychology. 3. Human Body. 4. Language. 5. Posture. BF 637.N66 R165b 2010] RA418.R33 2010 362.1–dc22 2009033793 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-84769-236-8 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-84769-235-1 (pbk) Multilingual Matters UK: St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK. USA: UTP, 2250 Military Road, Tonawanda, NY 14150, USA. Canada: UTP, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8, Canada. Copyright © 2010 Vaidehi Ramanathan. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. The policy of Multilingual Matters is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products, made from wood grown in sustainable forests. In the manufacturing process of our books, and to further support our policy, preference is given to printers that have FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certifi cation. The FSC and/or PEFC logos will appear on those books where full certifi cation has been granted to the printer concerned. Typeset by Techset Composition Ltd., Salisbury, UK. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Short Run Press Ltd. 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd iivv 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM For Jody, again For Aasha, again Again and yet again ... 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd vv 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd vvii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 1 Introduction: Why Bodies Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes . . . . 18 3 Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4 Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 5 Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 6 Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/ Disability-Related Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 7 Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 vii 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd vviiii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd vviiiiii 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM Acknowledgments I thank the Breast Cancer Fund for permission to use their picture. I also thank Anna Roderick at Multilingual Matters for her gracious and unfail- ing support in seeing this project through to completion. To my family, friends and colleagues: you all know what this volume means to me. Our conversations over the years ping across the sentences and pages of this book. You have my sincere gratitude. Vaidehi Ramanathan July 2009 ix 11772200__FFMM..iinndddd iixx 1111//66//22000099 77::2299::2200 AAMM
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