Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Language, body, and health: An introduction -- Part I. Bodies and communication -- Chapter 2. Community, controversy, and compromise: The language of visual impairment -- Chapter 3. Rebuilding the body: Biomedical and societal discourses and the decision to perform a living-donor organ transplant surgery -- Chapter 4. Reading "intentions": Communication challenges for parents of children with autism and partial hearing -- Part 2. Bodies and cognitive "impairments" -- Chapter 5. Intentional stance and Lucinda Greystone: Embodied memory in conversational reminiscence by a speaker with Alzheimer's Disease -- Chapter 6. Body in autism: A view from social interaction -- Part 3. Bodies and chronic ailments -- Chapter 7. Negotiating the invisible: Two women making sense of chronic illness through narrative -- Chapter 8 "Training your taste buds": The language of success in diabetes "self-efficacy" -- Part 4. Bodies and body performances -- Chapter 9. The discursive construction of the female body in family planning pamphlets -- Chapter 10. Blood talk: A discursive perspective on transcultural identity and mental health -- Chapter 11. Body act: Contemporary Chinese body performance, critical narrative, and somatic writing -- Chapter 12. Bodies and applied linguistics: The challenge of theory -- Index