TY - BOOK ID - 78143819 TI - The Disarticulate PY - 2014 SN - 0814708331 9780814708330 9780814708460 0814708463 9780814725306 0814725309 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. KW - Anthropological linguistics. KW - Articulation disorders. KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Language and languages KW - Language disorders. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. KW - 21st century. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Dysphasia KW - Communicative disorders KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Twenty-first century KW - Articulatory speech defects KW - Disorders of articulation KW - Dysarthria KW - Dyslalia KW - Misarticulations KW - Phonological disorders KW - Pronunciation disorders KW - Speech disorders KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Antropologisk lingvistik. KW - Civilization, Modern. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Language and languages in literature. KW - Literature. KW - Modernitet. KW - People with disabilities in literature. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Social Marginalization. KW - Speech Disorders. KW - Språkstörningar KW - Talstörningar KW - General. KW - Cultural. KW - People with Disabilities. KW - Idéhistoriska aspekter. KW - 2000-2099. KW - Language and languages Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143819 AB - Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the ‘disarticulate’—those at the edges of language—have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Night wood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of “the least of its brothers.” Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity’s anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others. ER -