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Discourses of Deficit

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  • © 2011

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  1. Christopher N. Candlin

    1. Macquarie University, Australia

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  2. Jonathan Crichton

    1. University of South Australia, Australia

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Part of the book series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations (PSPOD)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Christopher N. Candlin, Jonathan Crichton
      Pages 1-22

  3. Characterisation in the Context of Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Constructing Vulnerability: The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse

      • Michelle Aldridge, June Luchjenbroers
      Pages 25-41

    3. Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category

      • Thomas Scheffer
      Pages 42-59

  6. Relationships in the Context of Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame

      • Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
      Pages 159-174

    3. On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the ‘Alter’

      • Peter Kastberg, Marianne Grove Ditlevsen
      Pages 175-191

  7. Capacity in the Context of Communication Disorder

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders

      • Dana Kovarsky, Irene Walsh
      Pages 195-214

    3. Public and Private Identity: The Co-construction of Aphasia through Discourse

      • Elizabeth Armstrong, Alison Ferguson, Lynne Mortensen
      Pages 215-231

  8. Recognition in the Context of Educational Diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers about Language Education

      • Edith Esch
      Pages 235-255
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About this book

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains.

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"This meticulously edited and highly organized collection of articles constitutes an authoritative, multi-perspectival, interdisciplinary, 'discourse-based' reference work. Its theoretical and methodological frameworks and detailed analyses illuminate institutional discursive processes in which deficits of various kinds often threaten the well-being of lay participants a timely book that occupies a qualitative scholarly niche, will nevertheless benefit researchers from various institutional settings seeking to explore communication in order to identify the implicit dimensions of processes and procedures, and effect change that will improve lay professional institutional communication." - Discourse & Communication

Editors and Affiliations

  • Macquarie University, Australia

    Christopher N. Candlin

  • University of South Australia, Australia

    Jonathan Crichton

About the editors

MICHELLE ALDRIDGE Cardiff University, UK MATS ALVESSON Lund University, Sweden and University of Queensland, Australia ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG Edith Cowan University, Australia ANDREW BENGRY-HOWELL University of Bath, UK SALLY CANDLIN Macquarie University, Australia MARIANNE GROVE DITLEVSEN Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark EDITH ESCH University of Cambridge, UK ALISON FERGUSON University of Newcastle, Australia ARTHUR S FIRKINS Macquarie University, Australia CHRISTINE GRIFFIN University of Bath, UK CHRIS HACKLEY Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER HALL Durham University, UK RODNEY JONES City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong PETER KASTBERG Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark TINA KOCH University of Surrey, UK DANA KOVARSKY University of Rhode Island, USA JUNE LUCHJENBROERS Bangor University, Wales, UK JENNIFER MACFARLANE University of Melbourne, Australia LENORE MANDERSON Monash University, Australia TIM MCNAMARA University of Melbourne, Australia WILLM MISTRAL University of Bath, UK LYNNE MORTENSEN Macquarie University, Australia ANGELA SCARINO University of South Australia, Australia THOMAS SCHEFFER Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany STEF SLEMBROUCK Gent University, Belgium LESLEY STIRLING University of Melbourne, Australia STEFAN SVENINGSSON Lund University, Sweden ISABELLE SZMIGIN University of Birmingham, UK IRENE WALSH Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland MICHAEL WALSHUniversity of Sydney, Australia

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