Discourses of deficit Constructing vulnerability: the experience of children and other groups within legal discourse Michelle Aldridge June Luchjenbroers Learning and unlearning being guilty: on the contingent ascription of a deficit category Thomas Scheffer Categorisations of child in need and child in need of protection and implications for the formulation of deficit parenting Christopher Hall Stef Slembrouck She is not coping: risk assessment and claims of deficit in social work Arthur S. Firkins Christopher N. Candlin Narrative identity and care: joint problematisation in a study of people living with dementia Jonathan Crichton Tina Koch Were just going to be talking about you...: identifying deficits and achieving quality in nurse patient discourse Sally Candlin You dont want to look like that for the rest of your life: contested discourses of loss in a normative societal context Lesley Stirling Lenore Manderson Jennifer MacFarlane Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame Mats Alvesson Stefan Sveningsson On the discursive construction of knowledge deficits in the alter Peter Kastberg Marianne Grove Ditlevsen The discursive construction of language disorders Dana Kovarsky Irene Walsh Public and private identity: the co construction of aphasia through discourse Elizabeth Armstrong Alison Ferguson Lynne Mortensen Epistemic injustice and the power to define: interviewing Cameroonian primary school teachers about language education Edith Esch Absence as deficit in assessing intercultural capability Angela Scarino Discourses of deficit and deficits of discourse: computers disability and mediated action Rodney Jones Young peoples binge drinking constituted as a deficit of individual self control in UK government alcohol policy Chris Hackley ... [et al.] Measuring deficit Tim McNamara A neo colonial farce Discourses of deficit in Australian Aboriginal land claim and Native title cases Michael Walsh