Discourse, the Body, and Identity

This volume integrates new studies by leading researchers in sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, and cultural theory. It explores the many interfaces of body and discourse, organized under three main themes: the body as an interactional resource, ideological representations of the body, and discursive constructions of the body in normal and pathological contexts.

Justine Coupland and Richard Gwyn are both at Cardiff University.

Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements

vii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(18)

Justine Coupland

Richard Gwyn

Part 1 The Body as an Interactional Resource

The Body in Action

19

(24)

Charles Goodwin

Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction

43

(27)

Jon Hindmarsh

Christian Heath

Flirting

70

(19)

Alan Radley

Part 2 Ideological Representations of the Body

Ageing Bodies: Aged by Culture

89

(18)

Mike Hepworth

Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk

107

(20)

Marian Tulloch

John Tulloch

Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skincare Product Marketing

127

(24)

Justine Coupland

Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme

151

(26)

Adam Jaworski

Bodies Exposed: A Cross-cultural Semiotic Comparison of the `Saunaland' in Germany and Britain

177

(32)

Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

Part 3 The Body, Pathology and Constructions of Selfhood

Processes of Refiguration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives

209

(16)

Richard Gwyn

The Statistical Body

225

(21)

Kathleen Woodward

`I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerised Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self

246

(21)

Deborah Lupton

Wendy Seymour

Index of Names

267

(3)

Index of Subjects

270

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