Prison discourse
Subtitle: language as a means of control and resistance
By: Andrea Mayr.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Prisoners -- Education -- Scotland; Imprisonment -- Scotland; Correctional personnel -- Language; Prisoners -- Scotland -- Language; Social control; Language and education; Critical discourse analysis
Description: "Andrea Mayr provides extensive and powerful examples of spoken interaction between prison officers and inmates in a big city prison during a rehabilitation course based on improving cognitive functioning. She charts language use and shifting power relations within the prison and situates the linguistic study within the wider domain of power dynamics in institutions. She further clarifies the role that Systemic Functional Linguistics can have within a wider Critical Discourse Analysis perspective in supporting understanding of spoken interaction. The author's interdisciplinary approach ensures a highly relevant resource for linguists, educators and social scientists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.