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Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
Andrea Mayr
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Description for Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
Hardcover. With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this text clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have with a critical discourse analysis perspective. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and prisoners involved in a prison based course, the author charts the shifting power relations of control and resistance and situates the findings in a broader sociological analysis of the prison as an institution. The study will interest sociolinguists, discourse analysts, and researchers in communication studies, criminology and counselling.
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and prisoners involved in a prison based course, the author charts the shifting power relations of control and resistance and situates the findings in a broader sociological analysis of the prison as an institution. The study will interest sociolinguists, discourse analysts, and researchers in communication studies, criminology and counselling.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333993354
SKU
V9780333993354
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Ref
99-15
About Andrea Mayr
ANDREA MAYR is a Lecturer in the Department of German Language and Literature at Glasgow University.
Reviews for Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
'An important contribution to interactional studies, Prison Discourse demonstrates thorough and enlightening ways of interpreting the social control in prisons. Andrea Mayr closely examines written texts and classroom discussions, noting the word choices, phrase selections, modalities, and interactive moves among inmates and officers.' - Patricia E. O'Connor, Associate Professor, Georgetown University 'I recommend this well-written and well-researched ... Read more