Disability and Discourse Analysis

Disability, Discourse and Technology

“…Additionally, this group's main contribution to disability studies is demonstrating how the verbal or textual language used for description of or discussion with people with disability can create or alleviate disability. It follows that we must pay attention to how we construct disability through language (Grue, 2007(Grue, , 2015. Moreover, the research illustrates how disability, to a certain extent, is discursively constructed since language creates reality.…”

“…Likewise, discourse analysis, a field which examines language in use, or the way language is used in social contexts or in communication with others to 'enact' activities and identities (Gee, 1990), addresses linguistic, social and cultural discrimination. Nonetheless, the role that language plays in shaping the experience of disability and in creating discursive exclusion has been only minimally studied (see Barton, 1996;Al Zidjaly, 2005Grue, 2007Grue, , 2015. The lack of literature is notable, given that language is a primary means of identity construction and discrimination, or social exclusion, often occurs first and foremost at the basic linguistic level-in communication.…”

Towards a critical stylistics of disability

“…As noted, in addition to theorising and campaigning on specific terminology, disability scholars have also looked at disability and language at a discourse level. These scholars include those writing in the collection edited by Corker and French (1999a) and Grue (2015). This is often somewhat removed from detailed study of actual linguistic structures inside texts.…”

Now you see it, now you don’t: A discourse view of disability and multidisciplinarity

“…In previous work, I have noted that many of the words that tend to occur alongside "disability" (their collocates, in linguistic terms) come from the semantic domains of welfare bureaucracies, medical assessments, pensions and benefits, and so on. This dynamic, and many points that are more tangentially related to the arguments in this article are more extensively discussed in the book Disability and Discourse Analysis (Grue, 2015).…”

“…I will discuss them primarily with reference to discourse analysis, which I believe is a very useful tool for examining the complex topic of disability. I have argued this case more extensively elsewhere (Grue, 2015); here, I'll merely note that discourse analysis is an ongoing and vibrant scholarly project which focuses on linguistic and symbolic structures in order to analyze and explain behavior and social practice.…”