Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-03-19T06:00:00Z

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind of non-mixity fosters a distancing from the norms of good speech, but it does not eradicate language inequalities between people who stammer.
From the beginning of the 20th century, patient movements have challenged the social control exercised by the medical establishment (Barbot 2002; Pinell and Broqua 2002). Self-help and talk groups, developed in the United States in the

- Essays / handicap, stigmate, disabilities, language, non-mixity, stigma, stigmatization, health

City Words: An Invitation to Travel

Yves Grafmeyer — 2011-07-13T07:00:00Z

L'aventure des mots de la ville (The Adventure of City Words Through Time, Languages, Societies), tells the story of the use of words, taking the reader through different places, languages, and times in order to evoke the relationship between societies and their cities. This book, which contains a remarkable amount of knowledge, is also an invitation to conduct new investigations into the many paths and perspectives that it opens up.
We can only congratulate and thank the editors and authors

- Reviews / urban research, language, urban history

Metropolitics

Giving Voice to Stammerers

City Words: An Invitation to Travel