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Publication details [#56495]

Guo, Jing-ying. 2012. ‘Anyone in my shoes will end up like me’: Female inmates’ discourse of responsibility for crime. Discourse & Society 23 (1) : 34–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | crime | discourse strategy | prison | women's language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Tapping into conversation analysis and Billig’s rhetorical particularization strategy, this paper argues that chinese female inmates display an 'irresponsibility for their past crimes’ and discusses how this affects future courses of the talking program furnished in China’s prisons.