Titlebook: Discourses of Deficit; Christopher N. Candlin,Jonathan Crichton Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2

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The Power of Parallel Structure disability in other areas, language is one of the resources available to mitigate or explain differences, but, as Goffman (1968) notes, for those individuals with communication difficulties this resource is not available. For communities, language is a means by which other disabilities are construc

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Introduction themes would be, for example, those of risk, quality and trust. We offer in this Introduction some discussion of how the constructs of discourse and deficit are explored in the book, and how these may be researched. This allows us to supply contexts for the particular foci of the individual chapter

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On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the ‘Alter’agement communication (see section 2) — be it within late capitalist society or new capitalism (Gee .. 1996) — we are dealing with a field of study where asymmetrical power relationships (Sarangi & Roberts 1999: 6) not only permeate discursive action but indeed structure it — and very openly so.

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Public and Private Identity: The Co-construction of Aphasia through Discoursexts — for example, how do ‘deficits’ manifest themselves and who is responsible for the labelling? As Kovarsky and Walsh discuss in this volume, professional discourse constructs communication disorder through textbooks, research and clinical intervention. In this chapter, we will explore key contex