Topos, piss take and enthymeme eh!
Lets take the dis out of cursive, or rather sometimes I am thinking it is
more recursive than discursive or even narrative or fricative Sibyl.
Sifilance in the dark at McMurdo Park, and an unsound sound at that.
There's a problem, didn't dear old Ludwig Wit do for all that word play way
back.
Lets start right here " We define "disability" broadly to include physical,
cognitive, and
intellectual difference." Well difference from what to begin with? (whatever
begin might signify or signify start.
Is that Burke, K, pronounced as Bark L(ay), and is the Bishop waiting in the
wings for another outing? You can't have a discourse without a Bishop, never
mind the afternoons and crows said Humpty.
Problem is you have blown it right away by attempting to define disability
when you ask for discourse, you can't have game set and match to begin with
when what you are asking for is talks about talks.
Disability or Silly Billyty, I dunno, but then I suppose I do, this is what
DSQ after all, the illusion of academic freedom in a straight jacket of
custom and practice, a very uncommune lore.
Larry
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> CFP pasted below. Please distribute widely, and please consider
> submitting.
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> *Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly:
> Disability and Rhetoric*
>
> The profound insight of Disability Studies is its conception of
> disability as a representational system rather than as a medical
> problem, a deficit, or
> a personal tragedy (Thomson, 1997). In this view, disability is regarded
> not as a settled physical or cognitive fact but rather as a discourse, a
> collection of figures and narratives, tropes and topoi, speakers and
> audiences that suggest identities and positions in the world to those
> participating in the discourse. The analysis of disability, then,
> necessarily goes beyond medical and psychological perspectives to
> consider how words and other symbols may be used, recalling Kenneth
> Burke (1969), by human agents, "to form attitudes or to induce actions
> in other human agents" (41). Disability, to say it another way, is
> inherently rhetorical and may best be understood through methods of
> rhetorical inquiry and analysis.
>
> To that end, a special issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)
> will address the topic of rhetoric and disability. While Disability
> Studies has
> revealed the essentially discursive nature of disability, rhetorical
> theory and analysis promise to further the discussion by contributing a
> unique set
> of methods, terms, and concepts. Rhetorical method is a particularly
> important concern, and we are especially interested in essays that
> illustrate diverse methods and modes of rhetorical analysis as these
> relate to disability. Essays may analyze the workings of rhetoric in
> printed works
> about disability but also in other media, including film, music,
> web-texts, graphic novels, and other forms of sound and image.
>
> We define "disability" broadly to include physical, cognitive, and
> intellectual difference. The ideal essays will enrich understandings of
> the
> relationship of rhetoric and disability, but will also serve as models
> for future scholarship in studies of symbolic representations of
> disability.
> Potential issues or topics may include, but are not limited to, the
> following:
> - Disability as, in, *or* and rhetoric
> - Disability and *or* as trope
> - Disability rhetorics in the media
> - Disability rhetorics in the classroom, workplace, or home
> - Disability rhetorics and narrative
> - Disability and digital rhetorics
> - Activism and rhetoric
> - Disability and audience
> - Disability and rhetorical appeals, the rhetorical canons, and/or
> the rhetorical triangle
> - Disability and legal/governmental rhetorics
> - Rhetorics of accessibility
> - Rhetorical constructions of disabled identity
>
>
> *Timeline*
> Queries or abstracts sent by February 1, 2010
> Full submissions due July 1, 2010
> Final revisions due November 31, 2010
> Publication in the Winter 2011 issue of DSQ.
>
>
> *Submission guidelines*
> Manuscripts must be in the form of a Word document and:
>
> - Have a cover page that includes the author's name, institutional
> affiliation, and contact information
> - Have an abstract of 100-150 words
> - Be between 3,000-6,000 words in length (approximately 10-20
> double-spaced pages)
> - Provide full references for all citations
> - Include a brief biography of the author (50-100 words)
> - Follow DSQ guidelines:
> http://www.dsq-sds.org/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
>
>
> Please send queries and submissions to John Duffy ([log in to unmask]) and
> Melanie Yergeau ([log in to unmask]).
>
> *References*
> Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of
> California Press.
>
> Thomson, R. G. (1997). Disability, identity, and representation: An
> introduction. In R.G. Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical
> Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia
> University Press, 5-18.
>
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> Department of English
> The Ohio State University
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