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Discourse and Diversionary Justice

An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Employs a rich range of multimodal discourse analysis tools

  • Develops a new dimension of Systemic Functional Linguistics in the forensic area of Applied Linguistics

  • Explores the extent to which conferences conform to a redemptive ‘passion play’ of “re-integrative shaming”

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Approaching Restorative Justice

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 1-47
  3. Conference Design: Genre and Macro-Genre

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 49-127
  4. Conference Interaction: Exchange Structure

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 129-156
  5. Expressing Feeling: Appraisal Systems

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 157-197
  6. Negotiating Feeling: The Role of Body Language

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 199-243
  7. Performing Identity : A Topological Perspective

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 245-268
  8. Ceremonial Redress: How Conferencing in Fact Achieves Its Goals

    • Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin
    Pages 269-301
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 303-338

About this book

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia. Exploring this form of diversionary justice from the perspectives of functional linguistics and performance studies, the authors combine close textual analysis with ethnographic research methodologies. They examine how participants use the discourse semantic resources available to them to achieve such outcomes as reparation for the victim, reintegration of the offender into the community, and reconciliation between the various parties. This uniquely-researched work is sure to be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Michele Zappavigna

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    JR Martin

About the authors

Michele Zappavigna is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her major research interest is the discourse of social media, and she has published widely on this topic in a range of books and journals.

J.R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focusing on English and Tagalog. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discourse and Diversionary Justice

  • Book Subtitle: An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing

  • Authors: Michele Zappavigna, JR Martin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63762-4Published: 20 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87629-0Published: 09 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63763-1Published: 06 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 338

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Discourse Analysis, Socio-legal Studies

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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