Disability rhetoric
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Disability rhetoric
（Critical perspectives on disability / Steven J. Taylor, series editor）
Syracuse University Press, 2016, c2014
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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"First paperback edition 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-326) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.
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