1. Introduction -- 2. Research Context, Methods and Data Collection -- 3. Critical Discourse Analysis and the Language of Social Control -- 4. Critical Discourse Analysis and the Study of Officer-Inmate Interaction: Social Control in Action -- 5. Resisting and Acquiescing with Social Control -- 6. Conclusions -- App. I. Outline of SFL and Analysis of Cognitive Skills Handbook Texts
Summary
"Andrea Mayr provides extensive and powerful examples of spoken interaction between prison officers and inmates in a big city prison during a rehabilitation course based on improving cognitive functioning. She charts language use and shifting power relations within the prison and situates the linguistic study within the wider domain of power dynamics in institutions. She further clarifies the role that Systemic Functional Linguistics can have within a wider Critical Discourse Analysis perspective in supporting understanding of spoken interaction. The author's interdisciplinary approach ensures a highly relevant resource for linguists, educators and social scientists."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Discourse analysis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index
