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Author Mooney, Annabelle, 1974- author.

Title Human rights and the body : hidden in plain sight / Annabelle Mooney
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, tables
Series Law, Language and Communication
Law, language and communication.
Contents Introduction : we were promised jet packs -- Universals and foundations -- The blinded body -- The body -- The body, the index and the other -- The living body -- The embodied mind -- The linguistic body
Summary This study brings research in linguistics and the way in which the body is written upon to bear on discourse on human rights and the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, the study argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human rights -- Language
Human body -- Law and legislation -- Language
Sociological jurisprudence.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
LAW -- International.
Sociolinguistics
Sociological jurisprudence
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