Contesting the deviant other: Discursive strategies for the production of homeless subjectivities

Discourse and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 783-809

  Toft, Amoshaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

corpus linguistics; deviance; homeless; lexicalization; metaphor; metonym; semantic network analysis; social movement; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907474563     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926514536839     Document Type: Article

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