Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds

Jodie Clark is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, and Course Leader for the BA (honours) English degree. She is the author of Language, Sex and Social Structure (2012, Palgrave). She hosts an accessible podcast about her research ideas at www.structuredvisions.wordpress.com.

• 1 Grammar and social worlds.- 2 Structures, centres and transformation.- 3 The empirical project of imagining social change.- 4 Selves, bodies, centres.- 5 The embodying community.- 6 The social body.- 7 Disruptive bodies.- 8 Openings.- Appendix Transcription conventions.- Bibliography.