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Publication details [#14469]

Timor, Uri and Erika Landau. 1998. Discourse characteristics in the sociolect of repentant criminals. Discourse & Society 9 (3) : 363–386.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | functions of language | sociolect

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is shown how the language of former criminals changes from a crimininal sociolect to a religious one characteristic of the academy which rehabilitates them. Drawing on discourse analysis of interviews of the repentant criminals, the authors discuss the range of linguistic resources used.