‘I am Normal on the ’Net’: Disability, Computerised Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self

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1. Introduction / Justine Coupland and Richard Gwyn -- 2. The Body in Action / Charles Goodwin -- 3. Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction / Jon Hindmarsh and Christian Heath -- 4. Flirting / Alan Radley -- 5. Ageing Bodies: Aged by Culture / Mike Hepworth -- 6. Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk / Marian Tulloch and John Tulloch -- 7. Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skincare Product Marketing / Justine Coupland -- 8. Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme / Adam Jaworski -- 9. Bodies Exposed: A Cross-cultural Semiotic Comparison of the 'Saunaland' in Germany and Britain / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof -- 10. Process of Refiguration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives / Richard Gwyn -- 11. The Statistical Body / Kathleen Woodward -- 12. 'I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerised Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self / Deborah Lupton and Wendy Seymour Summary "How is the body articulated in language and discourse? How is the body articulated as discourse? How do individuals and the media represent and define relationships between the body and selves? The chapters in this book explore how 'discourses of the body' - in talk, text and other semiotics - sustain moral, ideological and practical positions." "Using a wide range of data from both private and public contexts, Discourse, the Body and Identity brings different forms of linguistic and multimodal analysis to bear on these questions. It draws on and develops concepts and methods from sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology and cultural theory. Together, these approaches explore body representations and embodied action for the purposes of, for example, instruction, display and personal storytelling. The volume brings together research on representations of bodily ageing, gendered bodies, bodies at risk, ill and disabled bodies, but also bodies at play as well as the narcissistic body."--BOOK JACKET