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| Title |
A Discourse of "Abnormality": Exploring Discussions of People Living in Australia With Deafness or Hearing Loss
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|---|---|
| Published in |
American Annals of the Deaf, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.1353/aad.2016.0001 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Danielle Ferndale, Louise Munro, Bernadette Watson |
| Abstract |
Adopting a social constructionist framework, the authors conducted a synthetic discourse analysis to explore how people living in Australia with deafness construct their experience of deafness. An online forum facilitated access and communication between the lead author and 24 widely dispersed and linguistically diverse forum contributors. The authors discuss the productive and restrictive effects of the emergent discourse of deafness as abnormal and the rhetorical strategies mobilized in people's accounts: fitting in, acceptance as permission to be different, and the need to prove normality. Using these strategies was productive in that the forum respondents were enabled to reposition deafness as a positive, socially valued identity position. However, the need to manage deafness was reproduced as an individual concern, disallowing any exploration of how deafness could be reconstructed as socially valued. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the deafness as abnormal discourse. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Australia | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 41 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Researcher | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 12 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 17% |
| Psychology | 7 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 17% |
| Unknown | 13 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2016.
All research outputs
#14,277,392
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from American Annals of the Deaf
#122
of 223 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#205,150
of 416,449 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Annals of the Deaf
#9
of 20 outputs
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