Discourse, the Body, and Identity

JUSTINE COUPLAND is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. She has published widely on on lifespan communication, discourse and ritual, and texts of identity. Her books include Language, Society and the Elderly: Discourse, Identity and Ageing, with Nik Coupland and Howard Giles (1991), the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research (co-editor Jon Nussbaum (1995) and Small Talk (2000). - RICHARD GWYN is Coordinator of the Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University. He has published articles on discourse, narrative, health in the media, and medical interaction and is the author of Communicating Health and Illness (2002). As a poet and essayist, his recent publications including Walking on Bones (2000), Being in Water (2001) and Lluis Penaranda/Iwan Bala (2001) a critical account of two contemporary artists.

• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; J.Coupland & R.Gwyn PART I: THE BODY AS AN INTERACTIONAL RESOURCE The Body in Action; C.Goodwin Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction; J.Hindmarsh & C.Heath Flirting; A.Radley PART II: IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY Ageing Bodies, Aged by Culture; M.Hepworth Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk; M.Tulloch & J.Tulloch Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skin Care Product Marketing; J.Coupland Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme; A.Jaworski Bodies Exposed: A Cross-Cultural Semiotic Comparison of Saunas; U.Meinhof PART III: THE BODY, PATHOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELFHOOD Processes of Re-figuration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives; R.Gwyn The Statistical Body; K.Woodward 'I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerized Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self; D.Lupton