"Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control explores the varying inter-relationships between language, forms of bureaucratic organisation and social control. The text provides a detailed examination of the discursive dimensions of some of the key techniques of modern power: the 'productive' surveillance practices of administrative and public service institutions. Special attention is paid to recent developments within the state domain and ..."
"Analysis of language and discourse in social sciences has become increasingly popular over the past thirty years. Only very recently has it been applied to the study of social work, despite the fact that communication and language are central to social work practice. This book looks at how social workers, their clients and other professionals categorise and manage the problems of social work in ways which are rendered understandable, a ..."
"This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe and Africa, the volume makes three important contributions to cont ..."
"Categorisation and Accountability in Child Welfare Christopher Hall, Stefaan
Slembrouck, Srikant Sarangi. First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square,
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN Simultaneously published in the USA
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grand-father when he saw the egg ... Because this is a good omen, on the
condition that you take the egg to the Holy Mountain opposite. You should go
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"Background: /d/-initial function words and /td/ clusters Since the publications by
Leenen (1954) and Van Haeringen (1955) in the 1950's, various explanations for
the occurrence of progressive rather than regressive voice assimilation in /d/-
initial function words have been proposed. According to Zonneveld (1982), the
progressive devoicing in /d/-initial function words in some varieties of Dutch can
be explained by assuming that th ..."