Suresh Canagarajah

Language Incompetence (eBook, ePUB)

Learning to Communicate through Cancer, Disability, and Anomalous Embodiment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is framed as a memoir of the author's journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000548549
• Artikelnr.: 63611984

Autorenporträt

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He was the former editor of TESOL Quarterly and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Am I Disabled?
2. Learning to be Able
3. BC/AC: Changing Identities and Communities
4. Designer Babies and Chosen Tribes: Toward a Relational Politics
5. From War Zones to Cancer Wards: A Community of Dependent Frail Bodies
6. Composing at Chemo Time: Cancer Journals as Performative Writing
7. John's Final Blogs: Anomalous Embodiment and Religious Disability
Rhetoric
8. The Arbor and the Rhizome: Rethinking Language Competence
9. Weaving Texts: Scientific Communication as Anomalous Embodiment
10. "Supplement or Compensate our Weak Points": Relational Ethics in
Academic Interactions
11. Café Conversations: Embracing Vulnerability in Society and Education
Index