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The vocabulary of quitting: Exploring the relationship between language and the desired cessation of drug use
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, Vol.2(2), pp.11-30
2008
Abstract
This study will address the motivations and incentives involved in the attempted cessation of drug abusing behaviors from the perspective of the user. The study used qualitative interviewing techniques based on 2005-2006 data to examine urban current drug users, who had been diagnostically identified as ‘in need’ of treatment, and who had recently renounced the use of drugs by expressing their desire to quit through the use of language. It was this language (vocabulary) that was examined for similarities and differences in their use of justification techniques in order to establish a typology based on their vocabulary of quitting.
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- Title
- The vocabulary of quitting: Exploring the relationship between language and the desired cessation of drug use
- Publication Details
- Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, Vol.2(2), pp.11-30
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
- Copyright
- © 2008
- Identifiers
- 99381436137406600
- Academic Unit
- Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English