Bodies and language: health, ailments, disabilities

Introduction : why bodies matter

On metaprescriptive utterances : cancer, breasts and gazes

Scripting selves : (auto)biographical writing of Alzheimer patients and caregivers

Poststructuralist discourses and chronic ailments : (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy and body breakdowns

Communication challenges : autism, partial hearing and parental choices

Texts and meaning-making : critical revisitations in ailment/disability-related research

Critical ailment research in applied sociolinguistics : power, perception and social change.