Discourses of deficit / edited by Christopher N. Candlin, Jonathan Crichton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Candlin, Christopher.

Crichton, Jonathan.

Series:

Palgrave studies in professional and organizational discourse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 353 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Issues of 'deficit' play a crucial role in the social world in fields as diverse as:

Health

Education

Management

Social work

Law

Discourses of Deficit presents original contributions from key practitioners and researchers exploring how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient. How people are evaluated in interactions materially affects their life chances and can serve as a warrant for interventions in their personal lives. The book argues that taking a multiple perspective on research offers a means whereby the role played by 'deficit' can be illuminated and explained across a wide range of professional and organizational domains. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Characterisation in the Context of Law

1 Constructing Vulnerability: The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse / Michelle Aldridge Aldridge, Michelle, June Luchjenbroers Luchjenbroers, June 25

2 Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category / Thomas Scheffer Scheffer, Thomas 42

Part II Responsibility in the Context of Social Work

3 Categorisations of Child 'in Need' and Child 'in Need of Protection' and Implications for the Formulation of 'Deficit' Parenting / Christopher Hall Hall, Christopher, Stef Slembrouck Slembrouck, Stef 63

4 'She is not coping': Risk Assessment and Claims of Deficit in Social Work / Arthur S. Firkins Firkins, Arthur S., Christopher N. Candlin Candlin, Christopher N. 81

Part III Identity in the Context of Health Care

5 Narrative, Identity and Care: Joint Problematisation in a Study of People Living with Dementia / Jonathan Crichton Crichton, Jonathan, Tina Koch Koch, Tina 101

6 'We're just going to be talking about you ...': Identifying Deficits and Achieving Quality in Nurse-Patient Discourse / Sally Candlin Candlin, Sally 119

7 'You don't want to look like that for the rest of your life': Contested Discourses of Loss in a Normative Societal Context / Lesley Stirling Stirling, Lesley, Lenore Manderson Manderson, Lenore, Jennifer MacFarlane MacFarlane, Jennifer 137

Part IV Relationships in the Context of Management

8 Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame / Mats Alvesson Alvesson, Mats, Stefan Sveningsson Sveningsson, Stefan 159

9 On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the 'Alter' / Peter Kastberg Kastberg, Peter, Marianne Grove Ditlevsen Ditlevsen, Marianne Grove 175

Part V Capacity in the Context of Communication Disorder

10 The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders / Dana Kovarsky Kovarsky, Dana, Irene Walsh Walsh, Irene 195

11 Public and Private Identity: The Co-construction of Aphasia through Discourse / Elizabeth Armstrong Armstrong, Elizabeth, Alison Ferguson Ferguson, Alison, Lynne Mortensen Mortensen, Lynne 215

Part VI Recognition in the Context of Educational Diversity

12 Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers about Language Education / Edith Esch Esch, Edith 235

13 Absence as Deficit in Assessing Intercultural Capability / Angela Scarino Scarino, Angela 256

Part VII Agency in the Context of Marketing

14 Discourses of Deficit and Deficits of Discourse: Computers, Disability and Mediated Action / Rodney Jones Jones, Rodney 275

15 Young Peoples' Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-control in UK Government Alcohol Policy / Chris Hackley Hackley, Chris, Andrew Bengry-Howell Bengry-Howell, Andrew, Christine Griffin Griffin, Christine, Willm Mistral Mistral, Willm, Isabelle Szmigin Szmigin, Isabelle 293

Part VIII Membership in the Context of Institutional Appraisal

16 Measuring Deficit / Tim McNamara McNamara, Tim 311

17 A Neo-colonial Farce? Discourses of Deficit in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases / Michael Walsh Walsh, Michael 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230249721

0230249728

OCLC:

697776586