Negotiating Multiple Identities of Brazilian Paralympians by Lyusyena Kirakosyan

“…In this article, I draw on the personal narratives of 41 Brazilian Paralympic athletes who competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games to explore their multiple identities shaped within and outside sport and how they negotiated those self-representations. …”
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Newspaper Coverage of Paralympic Athletes: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis by Habibah Ismail, Selina Khoo, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong, Rizal Razman

“…This study examines representations of athletes with impairments who competed at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Discourse analysis from a linguistic perspective was employed to investigate gendered descriptions of disabled persons and the emotional expressions of Paralympic athletes, as printed in verbal and visual texts found in Malaysian English Language newspapers. …”
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