UID:
almahu_9949385430402882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003212065
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1003212069
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9781000548501
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1000548503
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9781000548549
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1000548546
Content:
"This book is framed as a memoir of the author's journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures. The narrative weaves together theoretical debates, textual analyses, and ethnographic data from communicative practices to redefine language competence. The book demonstrates : the generative and resistant value of human vulnerability, the importance of vulnerability in motivating engagement with social networks and material ecologies for productive thinking, communication, and community, how relational ethics emerge as important for social and communicative life. While language competence was traditionally defined as mentally internalized grammatical knowledge for individual mastery of communication, this book demonstrates the need for distributed, ethical, and embodied practice. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in language and literacy studies. It would interest scholars outside these disciplines to understand what language studies can offer to address the role of disabilities, impairments, and debilities in embodied communication and thinking. In the context of the global pandemic, compounded by environmental catastrophes and structural injustices which disproportionately affect marginalized communities, the book helps readers treat human vulnerability as the starting point for ethical social relations, strategic communication, and transformative education"--
Note:
ContentsPreface1. Am I Disabled?2. Learning to be Able3. BC/AC: Changing Identities and Communities4. Designer Babies and Chosen Tribes: Toward a Relational Politics5. From War Zones to Cancer Wards: A Community of Dependent Frail Bodies6. Composing at Chemo Time: Cancer Journals as Performative Writing7. John's Final Blogs: Anomalous Embodiment and Religious Disability Rhetoric8. The Arbor and the Rhizome: Rethinking Language Competence9. Weaving Texts: Scientific Communication as Anomalous Embodiment10. "Supplement or Compensate our Weak Points": Relational Ethics in Academic Interactions11. Café Conversations: Embracing Vulnerability in Society and Education12. Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Canagarajah, A. Suresh. Language incompetence. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032079189
Language:
English
Keywords:
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collective biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003212065
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003212065
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