The Disarticulate : Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity

The Disarticulate Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity

Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, James, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press [2014]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Cultural Front
Subjects:
Anthropological linguistics.
Articulation disorders.
Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Language disorders.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817327806719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Disarticulate and disarticulate
  • 1. The bearing across of language: care, catachresis, and political failure
  • 2. Linguistic impairment and the default of modernism: totality and otherness: dys-/disarticulate modernity
  • 3. Post-modern wild children, falling towers, and the counter-linguistic turn
  • 4. Dys-/disarticulation and disability
  • 5. Alterity is relative: impairment, narrative, and care in an age of neuroscience
  • Epilogue: “language in dissolution” and “a world without words”
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index
  • About the author

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