Strategic Linguistic Choices within the Swedish Disability Movement: Practical Reasoning, Agency, and Antiableist Challenges

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Aug 2024 Open Access

Strategic Linguistic Choices within the Swedish Disability Movement: Practical Reasoning, Agency, and Antiableist Challenges

Mats Landqvist Twitter (United States)

Abstract

This essay examines how the Swedish disability movement creates policies involving naming practices as a means for self-presentation.The study takes its departure from two kinds of empirical data: websites of specific disability organizations and an interview with representatives of a national disability organization.Different angles of problems associated with terms for selfdescription are discussed mainly from a rhetorical-agency perspective.Through the analysis of data, I show how different political goals are connected to naming practices, resulting in ambivalence toward ongoing linguistic innovation processes, especially those with roots in norm criticism.

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 2024-08-07
DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2251462
Open Access: OA PDF Hybrid
Topics: disability studies

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