Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory …
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…
