Abstract
Advertisements for hearing aids often tout the “invisible” nature of their product, designed to obscure visible markers of disability. This essay examines mid-century appeals to women hearing-aid wearers, emphasizing the labor of embodied and cognitive passing in kairotic spaces as well as practical rhetorical implications of human/machine integration, both of which continue to apply in contemporary contexts.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 184-193 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Rhetoric Society Quarterly |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 26 2020 |
Keywords
- Deafness
- human-machine communication
- kairotic space
- passing
- technology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Linguistics and Language