Vulnerability: Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society

Media type: E-Book

Title: Vulnerability : Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society

Published: Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2024

Issue: 1. Edition 2024

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten); with 8 figures

Language: English

DOI: 10.14220/9783737017046

ISBN: 9783737017046

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Keywords: Discourse analysis ; Vulnerability theories ; Vulnerable narratives ; Resilience ; Marginalisation ; Empowerment practices ; Verbal aggression ; Conflict ; Victimisation ; Infantilization ; Physical vulnerability ; Psychological vulnerability ; Scial vulnerability ; Sexual and gender vulnerability ; Linguistic vulnerability ; Institutional vulnerability ; Gender Studies

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Description: 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.

Access State: Open Access

Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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