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...
| Publicado en: | Disability & Society Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 745 - 758 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2016
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