1st Edition

Disability and Discourse Analysis

By Jan Grue Copyright 2015
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Disability and Discourse Analysis

Biography

Jan Grue is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

"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