Pretending to be a normal human being: Peep Show , sitcom, and the momentary invocation of disability.

This interdisciplinary article presents research about the place of disability in the British sitcom Peep Show, whose 54 episodes span more than a decade in their transmission (2003–2015). The methodology of critical discourse analysis is employed to probe the relationship between casual word choice...

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Publicado en:Disability & Society Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 745 - 758
Autor principal: Bolt, David
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2016
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          Persons with Disabilities
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