"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Réal Language Series General Editors: Jennifer Coates, Roehampton Institute,
London Jenny Cheshire, Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel, and Euan Reid,
Institute of Education, University of London Titles published in the series: David
Lee Competing Discourses: Perspective and Ideology in Language Norman
Fairclough (Editor) Critical Language Awareness James Milroy and Lesley Milroy
(Editors) Real English: The Grammar of English D ..."
"Real Language Series General Editors: Jennifer Coates, Roehampton Institute,
London Jenny Cheshire, Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel, and Euan Reid,
Institute of Education, University of London Titles published in the series: David
Lee Competing Discourses: Perspective and Ideology in Language Norman
Fairclough (Editor) Critical Language Awareness James Milroy and Lesley Milroy
(Editors) Real English: The Grammar of English D ..."
"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 conte ..."
"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 ..."
"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, ac ..."