LINGUIST List 15.461

Wed Feb 4 2004

Books: Sociolinguistics: Mayr

Editor for this issue: Neil Salmond <neillinguistlist.org>

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1. palgravemacmillan, Prison Discourse: Mayr

Title: Prison Discourse
Subtitle: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
 
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com 
 
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0-333-99335-7 

Author: Andrea Mayr, Lecturer in the Department of German Language and
	Literature at Glasgow University

Hardback: ISBN: 0333993357, Pages: 272, Price: �50/$65

 
Abstract:

'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

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.

Contents
Introduction
Research Context, Methods and Data Collection
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Language of Social Control
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Study of Officer-Inmate
 Interaction: Social Control in Action
Resisting and Acquiescing in Social Control
Conclusions
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index


Lingfield(s):	Sociolinguistics 

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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