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Direct linkRamanathan, Vaidehi; Makoni, Sinfree – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2007
Recent scholarship on "disabilities" and bodies has tended to be extreme in its orientation and has, on the whole, not been able to speak of chronic disabilities and bodily breakdown in humanistic ways. In its verve toward finding "cures," biomedical discourses, from which societal discourses draw their strength, have emphasized malfunctioning…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Applied Linguistics, Diabetes, Disabilities
Makoni, Sinfree; Pennycook, Alastair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
In this paper we argue that although the problematic nature of language construction has been acknowledged by a number of skeptical authors, including the recent claim in this journal (Reagan, 2004) that there is no such thing as English or any other language, this critical approach to language still needs to develop a broader understanding of the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Social Environment, Language Role, Sociolinguistics
