Publications

Publication details [#49694]

Speer, Susan A. and Simon Goodman. 2007. Category Use in the Construction of Asylum Seekers. Critical Discourse Studies 4 (2) : 165–185.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | discursive practice | immigrant | political discussion | psychology

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper uses critical discursive psychology to explore how participants in the asylum debate employ categorization as a powerful political and rhetorical strategy to impose their own classification systems onto the debate.