Disability Rhetoric

Abstract

This chapter focuses on disability rhetoric. It explores the ways of defining and describing disability, and the meanings that get generated from disability and by disabled people. The chapter examines how to talk and write about disability, how this impact the experience of disabled people, or the rules and possibilities for any body and how disability create new possibilities for making meaning. It defines rhetoric as the study of the movement of power through communication, how the power of language shapes how people can move, and how they use language to make powerful moves. Disability studies needs rhetoric to better understand and negotiate the ways that discourse or language represents and impacts the experience of disability. The chapter discusses Sequoyah who has become a controversial figure, his stories the focus of debate and rhetorical negotiation. He has become a symbol system himself.

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