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Discourse Analysis

The enfreakment of language: Disability, eugenics, and rhetoric

Profile image of Stephanie K WheelerStephanie K Wheeler

2014

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practices. This understanding opens up new ways of recognizing the assumed able body and privileged logics in rhetorical theories, practices, and models of meaning-making. Definitions Central to understanding ableist systems is understanding the ways that ableist discourses affect bodiesparticularly disabled bodiesin an effort to maintain power. In order to interrogate the interaction between ableism and rhetoric, the larger definition of rhetoric from which I work primarily draws on Jay Dolmage's definition of rhetoric

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