scholarly journals Towards a critical stylistics of disability

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Hermeston
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Linguistic Structures

This article sets out the initial terrain for a critical stylistics of disability exposing the linguistic structures that encode often harmful ideologies surrounding disabled people. Disabled people are represented in literature and the media in general as ‘other’, and as curiosities to be described and explained. They are represented stereotypically as pitiable, evil, burdensome, as ‘Super Cripples’ or super humans, or as self-pitying. Such depictions can be internalised by and harmful to disabled people. Analysis will need to acknowledge that disabled people are frequently foregrounded as socially deviant in representations. Areas for analysis will include the author status as disabled or non-disabled, narrative mode, and the use of disability as metaphor. However, major areas for study will be description in noun phrases, transitivity analysis and the language of appraisal and evaluation. These can be scrutinised to expose the manner in which ideologies and stereotypes of disability are encoded.

scholarly journals Alternative means to access mediatic information for people with sensory impairments

Comunicar ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Antonio Rodríguez-Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Sensory Impairments ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
The Media

This paper aims at stating the difficulties which sensory disabled people face in order to access to mediatic information. However, instead of emphasizing and regretting at the difficulties, we try to evidence the needs which users demand to get a whole access to the media and, consequently, highlight their potencial towards the disabled social integration. The goal is to raise different professional's awareness: those which produce andlor make use of the mediato transmit information about their task importance and the possibility of adapting them, if necessary, for sensory disabled people, both related to technological or procedurd adaptations.El trabajo pretende poner de manifiesto las dificultades que manifiestan las personas con discapacidades sensoriales para el acceso a la información mediática. Ahora bien, más que enfatizar y lamentar tales dificultades procura evidenciar las necesidades que demandan los usuarios de los medios para conseguir un acceso integral a ellos y consecuentemente resaltar, en su caso, el potencial de los mismos para la integración social del deficiente. El propósito es concienciar a los distintos profesionales: aquellos que generan y/o se sirven de los medios para transmitir información de la relevancia de su tarea y de la posibilidad de adaptación, en su caso, para personas con problemas sensoriales, tanto con adaptaciones tecnológicas o de procedimiento.

scholarly journals Leveraging the London 2012 Paralympic Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Brittain ◽  
Aaron Beacom
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Disability Sport ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Media ◽  
Partial Success ◽  
Paralympic Games

The International Paralympic Committee, U.K. Government, and the Organizing Committee for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games all contended that the London 2012 Paralympic Games would positively impact the lives of disabled people in the United Kingdom, particularly with regard to changing nondisabled attitudes toward disability. All three have claimed partial success during the course of the 4-year period (Olympiad) separating the London and Rio Paralympic Games. However, this is at odds with the findings of Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs) and the experiences of disabled individuals. This article considers the claims of both sides against a backdrop of public policies that are targeting large-scale benefit cuts, the media coverage of which actually appears to be hardening attitudes toward anyone on benefits and negating any positive impacts from the Games themselves. It argues that the continued predominance of “ableist” perspectives on disability underpins many of the challenges faced by disabled people. The article adopts a historical perspective on the development of legacy-based foundations upon which the disability sport and Paralympic movements originated. It contends that the gradual move toward an elite “Olympic” sports model of competition has actually served to undermine these foundations.

Back to the future? New genetics and disabled people

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 22-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Shakespeare
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This article attempts to put developments in molecular biology into the broader context of disability rights and the relationship between disabled people and medical science. It includes a critique of biologi cal reduclionism and of the role of the media in inflating 'back-to- basics biology'. The article suggests that disabled people have not been consulted or involved in debates around the new genetics and that a wider discussion of these developments is urgently needed.

scholarly journals Evaluating the percentage of handicapped individuals using media in Herat province

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Namatullah Sarwary
Keyword(s):  
Critical Condition ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

Afghanistan is among the countries where majority of its people deal with tough circumstances. People with disabilities have more critical condition than others; they are deprived from many facilities and equipment, especially access to media. This research investigates the extent handicapped people use media and the impact of media on these people. By employing a qualitative method, data were collected from 21 disabled people through in-depth semistructured interviews. The results demonstrated that a large number of handicapped individuals use media. The media which had been used among the handicapped individuals were radio, television, and magazines, whereas Radio was considered more practical. Media can have either positive or negative impacts on disabled people, but this impact differs among disabled people depending on their disabilities.

scholarly journals Exploring the social legacy of paralympic games for disabled people

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Lyusyena Kirakosyan ◽  
Manoel Osmar Seabra Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Games

While the concept of legacy of sporting mega-events has been highly debated and filled with the promise to deliver tangible and measurable benefits, in the context of the Paralympics, defining legacy has been a challenge, due to a lack of universally understood and accepted nature and objectives of the Paralympic Games themselves. Although many authors and disability rights activists expect the Paralympics to accelerate agenda of inclusion of disabled people, a growing number of studies found that the Paralympics misrepresent disability and the reality of disabled people, and consequently reinforce negative stereotypes. Informed by critical disability studies, the central research aim of this article is to examine the social legacies of the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games for disabled people as identified in the media coverage of three selected periodicals, The Guardian, and O Globo. The article presents a summary of the qualitative analysis of the media coverage related to the topic of Paralympic legacy and disability rights, highlights its central themes and offers a discussion of the findings through the lens of critical disability studies.

scholarly journals Rights and Representation: Media Narratives about Disabled People and Their Service Animals in Canadian Print News

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-76
Author(s):  
Lana Kerzner ◽  
Chelsea Temple Jones ◽  
Beth Haller ◽  
Arthur Blaser
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Many ◽  
Media Narratives

Canadian news coverage is reflecting and shaping an evolution of thought about how we must publicly account for animals’ roles in the disability rights movement. Through a textual analysis of 26 news media articles published between 2012 and 2017, this research demonstrates that the media play a key role in reporting on discrimination, yet media narratives about service animals and their owners too often fail to capture the complexity of policies and laws that govern their lives. In Canada, there is widespread public confusion about the rights of disabled people and their service animals. This incertitude is relevant to both disability and animal oppression. This research identifies nine frames within the media narratives, as well as evaluating perspectives from critical animal studies in the news articles. These frames, which emerge in the media reports, in their descriptions of human and (less often) animal rights, illustrate public confusion surrounding these rights. The confusion is inevitable given the many laws in Canada that govern service animals. Thus, to give context to the news coverage, this article also surveys the legal protections for disabled people who use service animals in Canada, and suggests that until the news media understand the legalities surrounding service animals, they will not be well equipped to fulfil their role of informing the public. This is a lost opportunity in light of the media’s potential role as a pivotal tool to educate the public about disability and animal rights.

scholarly journals Living in between a house and a home: Where’s the comfort zone anyway? Dislocated identities in Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" and Cisneros’ "The House on Mango Street"

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Alcina Pereira de Sousa ◽  
Alda Maria Correia
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Selection Of

This paper aims to provide a reflection on literary representations of home alternatively to current collocations in the media, in the psychological and sociological realm (home vs comfort zone). The selection of two postcolonial texts, one by Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970), and another by Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984), provides ways-in to discuss changing social and cultural experiences with a focus on characters’ search for identity in a multicultural and multilingual setting, as is the one in the United States. The study will depart from a brief theoretical survey (Anderson 1991) to a corpus-based approach which maps such shifts and changes (Baker 2006) while resorting to a close analysis of contexts of occurrence of the keywords home and house, along with their patterns of collocation, in the texts under scope (from the sentence to the textual levels, following Biber et al. 1998; Sinclair 2004, among other). The analysis is meant to unveil ways in which writers make use of linguistic structures and most importantly what it means to be at home when characters never felt welcome there, or characters’ inner / outer struggle to develop a sense of belonging in disrupted settings.

scholarly journals Wooden Language - a Contemporary Tool in Political and Advertising Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Daniela Catau Veres
Keyword(s):  
The Media ◽  
Advertising Communication ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

Appeared with the totalitarian ideology, the wooden language remains a linguistic phenomenon frequently used in contemporary discourse. Used in contemporary thought circles, by advertisers, by communication agencies, by the media, by politicians, by polling institutes, etc., the wooden language pejoratively qualifies the discourse that contains it, provided that its specific structures be decrypted, as well as the intention of the issuer who wants to give the impression of authenticity, credibility and transparency. The issue of the use of wooden language in discourse presupposes a complex and transdisciplinary decryption process, which goes first through the identification of the means and procedures of realization, then through the identification of the functions that these linguistic structures hold at the level of discourse.

Zur Äquivalenz der minimalen lexikalisch geprägten Muster „Präposition + Substantiv“ im deutsch-slowakischen Kontrast

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-172
Author(s):  
Ďurčo Peter ◽  
Hornáček Banášová Monika ◽  
Fraštíková Simona ◽  
Tabačeková Jana
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
List Type ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Linguistic Structures

Abstract The paper focuses on the problems of the lexicon-grammar continuum using the example of the lexical-syntagmatic combinatorics of minimal phrases. The focus is on binary preposition + noun phrases with their recurrent collocation partners and syntagmatic context patterns. Together with other (con)textual elements, they form conventionalized and lexically stabilized patterns that have flowed together through recurrent use and repeated occurrence of related linguistic structures in various contexts. The phenomenon requires an inductive bottom-up analysis process. Statistically calculated syntagmatic profiles of selected German prepositions based on linguistic corpora serve as our analytic starting point. The German preposition–noun constructions are then subjected to a corpus-based examination in the contrast language Slovak with respect to their equivalence from the following aspects: –individual language specifics and cross-language regularities of the lexical stabilization of individual phrases –nature of lexical fillers in comparable patterns –equivalence of meanings and/or functions by different contextual factors.

scholarly journals Bezbronne ofiary i dzielni bohaterowie: wizerunek osób niepełnosprawnych w polskiej prasie

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-164
Author(s):  
Monika Struck-Peregończyk, ◽  
Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała
Keyword(s):  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Media

Helpless victims and brave heroes: the image of disabled people in Polish press There are two dominant ways of portraying disabled people in the media – either as people needing help or heroes achieving the extraordinary (‘super-crips’). The article uses framing analysis in order to examine disability-related texts from two most-read Polish daily papers – “Fakt” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”. The aim of the study was to determine whether the two frames: disabled person as a helpless victim or a ‘super-crip’ are still the dominant ways of portraying disability and if there are any discrepancies in this respect between the two newspapers. Keywords: disabled people, framing analysis, image, press

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