"Secrets keep you sick": Metalinguistic labor in a drug treatment program for homeless women

Language in Society

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 631-653

  Carr, E Summerson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Clinical language; Drug treatment; Indexical iconicity; Language ideology; Metalinguistics; Reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947366847     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404506060301     Document Type: Article

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