Visual Discourses of Disability

This book shows how the visual elements within news images of disability orchestrate and evoke social meanings about disability and of persons with disability. It creates a Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework to delineate what and how the visualization of disability communicates ideas and attitudes.

Pei Soo Ang is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Her research areas include disability and health discourses, critical disability studies, critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and multimodality. Siang Lee Yeo is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. His research focuses on the multimodal interactions of disabled individuals, especially autistic children, in educational and social settings.

1.Disability as a discourse semiotic phenomenon. 2.Constructing disability: Models, discourses, and intersectional dimensions. 3.Construal of the visibility and non-visibility of impairment and disability in press images. 4.Perspectivizing and Personizing depictions in the visualization of disability. 5.Enabling and Disabling representations: The emotive dimension of visual discourses of disability. 6.Visual Discourses of Disability framework: Empowering, advocating, handicapping and othering effects. 7.Advocating emancipatory and inclusive disability social semiotics.