Drugspeak: The Analysis of Drug Discourse

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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
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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

British orientation; analyzes conversations with drug users, diagnostic criteria, predicting behavior from speech, laws.

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Davies (psychology, U. of Strathclyde, Scotland) contends that explanations addicts give for their drug use make sense not as sources of information but as functional statements shaped by a climate of moral and legal censure. He says such conversations raise issues regarding the performative rather than informative nature of language; the misplaced view of drug use disseminated by politicians, the media, and other public sources; the purported scientific facts concerning drug use; and the very nature of science itself. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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  • ISBN-13: 9789057021916
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 12/1/1997
  • Pages: 220
  • Product dimensions: 8.00 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 2.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Explaining addiction 1
2 Drug taking and the laws of nature 11
3 Diagnostic criteria: Scientific definition or functional discourse? 23
4 The status of verbal report 41
5 Social Criterion Analysis 57
6 Modelling drugspeak 87
7 Drug discourses 111
8 Predicting behaviour from speech 133
9 Conclusions 167
References 185
Subject Index 191
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