Vulnerability

Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society

248 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon that manifests itself in different social arenas, vulnerable positions and instances of (self-)positioning indicate various crisis situations on a broad spectrum of phenomena, of manifestations and implications. Starting from the assumption that vulnerable (self-)positioning and stance-taking is manifested at the level of discursive practices, performative processes and material achievements, the contributors describe a series of mechanisms of staging vulnerability in a wide range of manifestations: among them physical, psychological, social, sexual and gender, linguistic, and institutional vulnerability.

• Reihe: Interdisziplinäre Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
• ISBN: 9783847117049
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2024
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Silvia Bonacchi
• Beiträge von: Fien de Malsche, Leena Maria Heikkola, Pascal Nicklas, Nina Holzschuh, Silvia Bonacchi, Mitchell Travis, Boris Schwencke, Mariusz Mela, Izabela Olszewska, Paula Muhr, Kendra Willson, Carsten Junker, Thomas Basiuk, Natalie Rauscher, Thomas B. Buchholz, Simone Knewitz, Hanna Acke, Joanna Pędzisz, Charlotta Seiler Brylla