Disability Rhetoric

Name: Disability Rhetoric
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ISBN: 9780815633242

ISBN-10: 0815633246

ISBN-13: 9780815633242

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jay Timothy Dolmage

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English