Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains. CHRISTOPHER N. CANDLIN is Senior Research Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He researches in discourse analysis and pragmatics especially in the contexts of public institutions and professions. He has held Professorships in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster, UK; The City University of Hong Kong; The UK Open University, and Honorary Professorships atthe Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff, and at Beijing ForeignStudies University, and was President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He publishes widely in Applied Linguistics and sits on the Editorial Boards of several major journals in the field. . . JONATHAN CRICHTON is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Research Fellow in the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on the role of language in interactions that shape people'slife chances in health, medical and educational settings. He has recently authored 'The Discourse of Commercialization', (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2010). INDICE: List of Contributors - Introduction; 'C.N.Candlin '&' J.Crichton -'PART I: CHARACTERISATION IN THE CONTEXT OF LAW - Constructing Vulnerability:The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse; 'J.Luchjenbroers '&' M.Aldridge' - Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category; 'T.Scheffer' - PART II: RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK - Categorizations of Child 'In Need' and Child 'In Need of Protection' and its Implications for the Formulation of 'Deficit' Parenting; 'C.Hall '&' S.Slembrouck' - 'She Is Not Coping': Risk Assessment and Claims of Deficit in Social Work; 'A.S.Firkins '&' C.N.Candlin' - PART III: IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE - Narrative, Identity and Care: Joint Problematisation in a Study of People Living With Dementia; 'J.Crichton '&' T.Koch' - 'We're Just Going to be Talking About You.. ': Identifying Deficits and Achieving Quality in Nurse Patient Discourse; 'S.Candlin' - 'You Don't Want to Look Like That for the Rest of Your Life': Contested Discourses of Loss in a Normative Societal Context; 'L.Stirling, L.Manderson '&' J.Macfarlane' - PART IV: RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT - Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame; 'M.Alvesson '&' S.Sveningsson' - On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the 'Alter'; 'P.Kastberg '&' M.Grove Ditlevsen' - PART V: CAPACITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDER - The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders; 'D.Kovarsky '&' I.Walsh' - Public and Private Identity: The Co-Construction of Aphasia Through Discourse; 'E.Armstrong, A.Ferguson '&' L.Mortensen' - PART VI: RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY - Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers About Language Education; 'E.Esch' - Absence as Deficit in Assessing Intercultural Capability; 'A.Scarino' - PART VII: AGENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF MARKETING - Discoursesof Deficit and Deficits of Discourse: Computers, Disability and Mediated Action; 'R.Jones' - Young Peoples' Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-Control in UK Government Alcohol Policy; 'C.Hackley, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Griffin, W.Mistral '&' I.Szmigin' - PART VIII: MEMBERSHIP IN THE CONTEXTOF INSTITUTIONAL APPRAISAL - Measuring Deficit; 'T.McNamara' - A Neo-ColonialFarce? Discourses of Deficit in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases; 'M.Walsh' - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24972-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 14/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido