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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349431990
• ISBN13: 9781349431991
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"