wish i could reply - but my keyboard is messed up.
I'm crppled up bad, kids. Have pity on me. ,
Mairian - All is cool. Carry on!!! S
---Mairian Corker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Laurence Bathurst wrote:
> >
> >Anyway, what I think is more interesting, is the reduction of an
> >author's name (or anyone's for that matter) to an acronym. One may
> >concede that using initials does still maintain some acknowledgment
> >of the person to whom they refer, but to exclude the the
> >dots/periods/fullstops from between letters is to form a new word
> >which does not acknowledge identity.
> >
> >Upon reading, I can see that Mairian did use Rosemary Garland
> >Thompson's name previous to the indiscrepencies. I assume from
> >this that I can feel comfortable with the assumption that there was
no
> >malice intended.
> >
> Actually, in my current state of mind, I simply forgot to do the
'find and
> change'. No malice intended Rosemarie. Also, if you go back to my
original
> posting you will maybe notice that I was focusing on a particular
issue and
> I referred to several people (not just Simi). I accept that Simi may
not
> mean what I originally thought she meant, but I'd still like Simi to
> provide further clarification.
>
> 'Normality','deviance' and related terms are words that we in the UK
would
> tend to place within the framework of the medical model. Perhaps
what I am
> really saying is that I don't think it's helpful to place words with
this
> kind of connotations at the 'centre' of anything which aims to
challenge
> their use. But this is a problem I have with the retention of the
> semantically diverse 'disability' at the heart of the social model and
> related ways of conceptualising disability. Perhaps you can allow me
my
> orientation as a sociolinguist with an interest in how we use
language -
> there are, regretably, very few of us in disability studies, and I
> appreciate that many will find my deconstructions confusing or
unhelpful.
>
> Mairian
>
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