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

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Silvia Bonacchi (Editor)
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9783847117049
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-1704-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 18 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Illustrations: with 8 figures
• Series: Interdisziplinäre Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik(; Interdisziplinäre Verortungen der Angewandten 014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies