Perpetuating ableist constructions of the “real world” through complaints about new communication technologies

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ID22342196
AutoresElizabeth S Parks (0000-0001-7571-9448, Colorado State University), J S Robles (0000-0003-2360-650X, Loughborough University)
Ano2021
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas35-58
Data de publicação2021-04-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage and Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ld.00083.par
OpenAlexW3119571109
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas39

Complaints about the use of new communication technologies are frequent in public discourse and work within a broader assemblage of discourses that promote selective ideologies. What is it that people are doing when they produce these complaints, and how might acts of complaining promote equity in our daily lives? We analyse complaints taken from 16 hours of video recorded dialogues and argue that the complaint discourse about the relationship of new communication technologies to people’s expected embodied functioning and idealized social participation reconstitutes and perpetuates broader ableist discourses about preferred engagement in the “real world.” By identifying intertextuality between two different topical discourses, we expand understanding about the reification of cross-cutting ableist discourses and promote more inclusive language use

Complaint · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ideology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology