Disability and Discourse (eBook)

Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

Val Williams (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119996163 (ISBN)

Infos

Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation
Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying
communication, to explore what happens during the everyday
encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other
people with whom they interact.

* Explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people
with intellectual disabilities

* Introduces the established methodology of Conversation
Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of
students, researchers and practitioners

* Adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with
intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while
showing how such talk can be supported and developed

* Follows people into the meetings and discussions that take
place in self-advocacy and research contexts

* Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can
have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in
research

Autor

Val Williams is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, UK ? a leading centre for research into services for people with intellectual disabilities based on a social model of disability. Her work concerns the barriers faced by adults with learning disabilities, with particular emphasis on inclusive research and analysis of naturally-occurring communication.

Inhalt

About the Author.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Starting Points.

2 Some Building Blocks for Analysis.

Part 1 Individual Voices.

3 Challenging Disempowering Patterns of Talk.

4 Supporting Someone to be Competent.

5 Opening up Conversation.

6 Equalising Talk and Friendliness.

7 Doing Autonomy: 'It's entirely up to you'.

8 Public Encounters.

Part 2 Collective Voice.

9 Self-Advocacy Talk: The personal to the political.

10 Supporting People to Speak up in Group Situations.

11 Being Interviewers with the Label of 'Intellectual
Disability'.

12 Behind the Scenes in Inclusive Research: 'We are the artists
of our lives'.

13 Talk about Labelling and Identity.

14 Reflections on Doing Analysis.

15 Reflections on Change.

Appendix Transcription Conventions.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This thought-provoking text is aimed at practitioners,
those who engage in everyday conversation with individuals with
intellectual disabilities and researchers who employ conversation
analysis (CA). This book reminds us that these individuals
and their support workers can benefit from engaging in more mindful
and reflective practice with regard to everyday
discourse." (British Journal of Learning
Disabilities, 7 August 2013)



'An exciting and innovatory book, rooted in an informed
awareness and concern for the interests and rights of the subjects
of study, through a focused analysis of how conversation and
participation is realised and maintained in everyday contexts.
Carefully conceived, and fundamentally important.'

--Len Barton, Emeritus Professor of Inclusive
Education, University of London, UK

'The first book-length account of working with people with
intellectual disabilities, at the fine grain of interactional
detail. The distinguishing feature is the reliance not on
second-hand data or observational anecdote, but on rigorous
analysis of what actually happens. This ought to have immediate
appeal to practitioners.'

--Charles Antaki, Professor of Language and
Social Psychology, Loughborough University, UK

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Diversity, Culture & Ethnicity • Kulturelle u. ethnische Vielfalt • Psychologie • Psychology
• ISBN-13: 9781119996163 / 9781119996163