"The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of "representational deficits" in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose r…
Issues of 'deficit' play a crucial role in the social world in fields as diverse as Health Education Management Social work Law Discourses of Deficit presents original contributions from key practitioners and researchers exploring how people routinely and at particular sites are…
Exploring a neglected aspect of discourse studies, this volume looks at how people are 'discursively constructed' as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. In this context, a 'deficit' would mean any kind of linguistic disadvantage or lack which affects the indivi…