Drugspeak
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Addicted Discourse
addiction psychology
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Classical Psychophysics
Context Dependent Words
diagnostic criteria
Discursive Stage
drug addiction
Drug Discourses
DSM Iv
Early Life History
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functional linguistics
High Jump Competition
language in addiction research
Likert Scoring System
LSD User
moral discourse analysis
Naked Civil Servant
Non-clinical Group
Nonclinical Groups
performative language
Primary Problem Substance
Roc Curve
scientific epistemology
Signal Detection
Signal Detection Theory
social criterion analysis
Street Drug
substance use narratives
Time Dimension
Van Der Pligt
verbal report
Verbal Reports
Product details
- ISBN 9781138006317
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Dec 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drugspeak The Analysis of Drug Discourse describes the way in which conversations between drug users vary and change according to context and circumstance in ways that suggest that there is no single truth about the state we call addicted. The central thesis of the book is that the explanations that drug users give for their drug use make sense not so much as sources of facts, but as primarily functional statements shaped by a climate of moral and legal censure. Consequently the significance of drug conversations lies not in their literal semantics but in the purposes such conversations serve. The argument raises a number of fundamental issues about the performative rather than the informative nature of language, about the nature of the scientific facts concerning drug use, and about the very nature of science itself. Starting with a general overview of the problems arising from a mechanistic and deterministic view of science, the book identifies a need for a new approach to the un
