Disability as a Social Construction

This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the representation of autism within a small sample of mainstream newspaper articles. The paper concludes that media, as a communicative tool, has enormous cultural power whereby the portrayal of Autism as a disability is predicated on notion...

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Main Author: Lauren Hamilton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Liverpool John Moores University 2019-07-01
Series:PRISM
Online Access:https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/prism/article/view/281
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