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Publication details [#57724]

Every, Danielle. 2013. ‘Shame on you’: The language, practice and consequences of shame and shaming in asylum seeker advocacy. Discourse & Society 24 (6) : 667–686.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | blaming | conflict | discourse strategy | language use

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper shows how the specific strategy of evoking shame, deployed in asylum seeker advocacy, for causing change (in opponents), actually elicits its opposite: flight or fight responses of disavowal, avoidance and expanding conflict.