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Drugspeak - The Analysis of Drug Discourse (Hardcover)
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Drugspeak - The Analysis of Drug Discourse (Hardcover)
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This work describes the way in which conversations between drug
users vary and change according to context and circumstances in
ways that suggest that there is no single "truth" about the state
we call "addicted". The central thesis of the book is that the
explanations that drug users give for their drug use make sense not
so much as a source of facts, but as primarily functional
statements shaped by a climate of moral and legal censure.
Consequently, the signficance of drug conversations lies not in
their literal semantics but in the purposes such conversation
serve. The argument raises a number of fundamental issues about the
performative rather than the informative nature of language, about
the nature of the "scientific facts" concerning drug use, and about
the very nature of science itself. Starting with a general overview
of the problems arising from a mechanistic and deterministic view,
the book identifies a need for a new approach to the understanding
of verbal behaviour. Secondly, it gives an account of a new form of
analysis, based on over 500 conversations carried out with drug
users in Scotland and the north of England. In a final data
section, evidence is presented link
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