Discourse, the body, and identity / edited by Justine Coupland and Richard Gwyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coupland, Justine.

Gwyn, Richard, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Sociolinguistics.

Body language.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This volume integrates new studies by leading researchers in sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, and cultural theory. It explores the many interfaces of body and discourse, organized under three main themes: the body as an interactional resource, ideological representations of the body, and discursive constructions of the body in normal and pathological contexts.

Contents:

Part 1 The Body as an Interactional Resource

2 The Body in Action / Charles Goodwin 19

3 Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction / Jon Hindmarsh, Christian Heath 43

4 Flirting / Alan Radley 70

Part 2 Ideological Representations of the Body

5 Ageing Bodies: Aged by Culture / Mike Hepworth 89

6 Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk / Marian Tulloch, John Tulloch 107

7 Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skincare Product Marketing / Justine Coupland 127

8 Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme / Adam Jaworski 151

9 Bodies Exposed: A Cross-cultural Semiotic Comparison of the 'Saunaland' in Germany and Britain / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof 177

Part 3 The Body, Pathology and Constructions of Selfhood

10 Processes of Refiguration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives / Richard Gwyn 209

11 The Statistical Body / Kathleen Woodward 225

12 'I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerised Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self / Deborah Lupton, Wendy Seymour 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0333969006

OCLC:

50123403