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Embodied Literacies: The Rhetorical/Material Construction of the Senior Body

Stephens, Yvonne R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384893521

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2013, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
This dissertation examines senior citizens’ literacy practices as they manage the body in an effort to characterize seniors’ “lived experiences.” The study is a grounded theory analysis of interviews with seniors ages 60 to 80. The seniors within this study show that they use literacy practices to leverage control over their bodies in uneven relationships with medical professionals; they view the body rhetorically; and they adopt new literacies mentalities (Knobel & Lankshear, 2007). The study allows the researcher to develop a model that characterizes seniors’ uses of literacy practices. The researcher proposes the concepts embodying texts and embodied literacies to conceptualize the ways seniors use literacy.
Pamela Takayoshi, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Patricia Dunmire, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sara Newman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kelly Cichy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Gunstad, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
205 p.
Composition; Gerontology; Literacy; Rhetoric
literacy; new literacies; local literacies; aging; elderly; doctor-patient; literacy practice; new media; embodying text; embodied literacies; disability studies; social gerontology; materiality; grounded theory; feminist methodology; lived experience

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  • Stephens, Y. R. (2013). Embodied Literacies: The Rhetorical/Material Construction of the Senior Body [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384893521

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stephens, Yvonne. Embodied Literacies: The Rhetorical/Material Construction of the Senior Body. 2013. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384893521.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stephens, Yvonne. "Embodied Literacies: The Rhetorical/Material Construction of the Senior Body." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384893521

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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