John Davies on 'Drugspeak: the analysis of drug discourse'

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John Davies
John Davies
Location: Strathclyde
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VIDEO NUMBER:
318
CATEGORY:
Sociology / Psychology / Biology
DATE ADDED:
10-06-2010
DESCRIPTION
John describes the background to this work and deals with the problems of language, meaning and conversation related to understanding behaviour.
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Footnotes
1) Book: Drugspeak - the analysis of drug discourse [John Booth Davies 1997 Harwood Academic]
Drugspeak Contents Pages
2) Paper: Cannabis 'drugspeak' from young people in Easterhouse Glasgow [Ross & Davies 2009]
Cannabis 'drugspeak' Abstract
Alastair J. Rossa; John B. Davies
Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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