Language incompetence : learning to communicate through cancer, disability, and anomalous embodiment / Suresh Canagarajah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canagarajah, A. Suresh, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canagarajah, A. Suresh--Health.

Canagarajah, A. Suresh.

Linguists--United States--Biography.

Linguists.

Cancer--Patients--Biography.

Cancer.

Competence and performance (Linguistics).

People with disabilities--Language.

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Contents:

ContentsPreface1. Am I Disabled?2. Learning to be Able3. BC/AC: Changing Identities and Communities4. Designer Babies and Chosen Tribes: Toward a Relational Politics5. From War Zones to Cancer Wards: A Community of Dependent Frail Bodies6. Composing at Chemo Time: Cancer Journals as Performative Writing7. John's Final Blogs: Anomalous Embodiment and Religious Disability Rhetoric8. The Arbor and the Rhizome: Rethinking Language Competence9. Weaving Texts: Scientific Communication as Anomalous Embodiment10. "Supplement or Compensate our Weak Points": Relational Ethics in Academic Interactions11. Café Conversations: Embracing Vulnerability in Society and Education12. Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Canagarajah, A. Suresh. Language incompetence.

ISBN:

9781003212065

1003212069

9781000548501

1000548503

9781000548549

1000548546

Publisher Number:

40031284790

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.