Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance

by Andrea Mayr and A Mayr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333993357
• ISBN13: 9780333993354
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.6"