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- Title
Self-representation of people with disabilities: "Disabling" the audience, challenging aesthetic norms and employing ironic echoing.
- Authors
Kohn, Ayelet
- Abstract
This paper examines the contribution of multimodal strategies in challenging aspects of public discourse about people with disabilities. It looks into media texts that were created by people with disabilities, in which the topic of disability is not a metaphor or a narrative prosthesis, but a demand for recognition and a call for a sincere dialogue, using three complementary strategies: disabling the viewers, challenging dominant aesthetic norms, and ironic echoing. The paper focuses on two autobiographical videos, a promotional video, a small corpus of paintings and a photograph, in which ironic echoing is the dominant strategy.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with disabilities; PROMOTIONAL films; AESTHETICS; PROSTHETICS
- Publication
Language & Dialogue, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
2210-4119
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ld.00084.koh