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 analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains.

"This meticulously edited and highly organized collection of articles constitutes an authoritative, multi-perspectival, interdisciplinary, 'discourse-based' reference work. Its theoretical and methodological frameworks and detailed analyses illuminate institutional discursive processes in which deficits of various kinds often threaten the well-being of lay participants a timely book that occupies a qualitative scholarly niche, will nevertheless benefit researchers from various institutional settings seeking to explore communication in order to identify the implicit dimensions of processes and procedures, and effect change that will improve lay professional institutional communication." - Discourse & Communication

Autorentext
MICHELLE ALDRIDGE Cardiff University, UK MATS ALVESSON Lund University, Sweden and University of Queensland, Australia ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG Edith Cowan University, Australia ANDREW BENGRY-HOWELL University of Bath, UK SALLY CANDLIN Macquarie University, Australia MARIANNE GROVE DITLEVSEN Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark EDITH ESCH University of Cambridge, UK ALISON FERGUSON University of Newcastle, Australia ARTHUR S FIRKINS Macquarie University, Australia CHRISTINE GRIFFIN University of Bath, UK CHRIS HACKLEY Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER HALL Durham University, UK RODNEY JONES City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong PETER KASTBERG Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark TINA KOCH University of Surrey, UK DANA KOVARSKY University of Rhode Island, USA JUNE LUCHJENBROERS Bangor University, Wales, UK JENNIFER MACFARLANE University of Melbourne, Australia LENORE MANDERSON Monash University, Australia TIM MCNAMARA University of Melbourne, Australia WILLM MISTRAL University of Bath, UK LYNNE MORTENSEN Macquarie University, Australia ANGELA SCARINO University of South Australia, Australia THOMAS SCHEFFER Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany STEF SLEMBROUCK Gent University, Belgium LESLEY STIRLING University of Melbourne, Australia STEFAN SVENINGSSON Lund University, Sweden ISABELLE SZMIGIN University of Birmingham, UK IRENE WALSH Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland MICHAEL WALSHUniversity of Sydney, Australia

Inhalt
List of Contributors Introduction; C.N.Candlin & J.Crichton PART I: CHARACTERISATION IN THE CONTEXT OF LAW Constructing Vulnerability: The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse; J.Luchjenbroers & M.Aldridge Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category; T.Scheffer PART II: RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK Categorizations of Child 'In Need' and Child 'In Need of Protection' and its Implications for the Formulation of 'Deficit' Parenting; C.Hall & S.Slembrouck 'She Is Not Coping': Risk Assessment and Claims of Deficit in Social Work; A.S.Firkins & C.N.Candlin PART III: IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE Narrative, Identity and Care: Joint Problematisation in a Study of People Living With Dementia; J.Crichton & T.Koch 'We're Just Going to be Talking About You...': Identifying Deficits and Achieving Quality in Nurse Patient Discourse; S.Candlin 'You Don't Want to Look Like That for the Rest of Your Life': Contested Discourses of Loss in a Normative Societal Context; L.Stirling, L.Manderson & J.Macfarlane PART IV: RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame; M.Alvesson & S.Sveningsson On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the 'Alter'; P.Kastberg & M.Grove Ditlevsen PART V: CAPACITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDER The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders; D.Kovarsky & I.Walsh Public and Private Identity: The Co-Construction of Aphasia Through Discourse; E.Armstrong, A.Ferguson & L.Mortensen PART VI: RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers About Language Education; E.Esch Absence as Deficit in Assessing Intercultural Capability; A.Scarino PART VII: AGENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF MARKETING Discourses of Deficit and Deficits of Discourse: Computers, Disability and Mediated Action; R.Jones Young Peoples' Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-Control in UK Government Alcohol Policy; C.Hackley, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Griffin, W.Mistral & I.Szmigin PART VIII: MEMBERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF INSTITUTIONAL APPRAISAL Measuring Deficit; T.McNamara A Neo-Colonial Farce? Discourses of Deficit in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases; M.Walsh Index