Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely, discourse analysts have traditionally been concerned with social issues and fields in which asymmetric power relations, marginalization, and discrimination play a central role, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, all of which share many analytical features with disability. But although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.
About the AuthorJan Grue is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Reviews"Overall, though, the book was very well crafted. It was interesting to read and engaged me fully. If it were a novel I would describe it as a page turner - one of those books that, once started, I could not put down."
- Ian R Lamond, Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the International Centre for Research in Events Tourism and Hospitality, Leeds Beckett University, UK
"[T]his book serves a key role in initiating discussions of Disability Studies through a CDA lens. In Disability and Discourse Analysis, Grue opens the door to a new and much needed area of research in the fields of CDA and Disability Studies, making the evident the potential for analytical studies to reveal more about the marginalization, descrimination, and stereo types that are experienced therein."
- Lindsay C.Nickels, Lancaster University, Journal of Language and Politics
Book InformationISBN 9780367669010
Author Jan GrueFormat Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 281g
