Rhetorics of Work: The Value of Work in Different Contexts of Argument

‘Recovery Work’ and ‘Magic’ among Long-Term Mental Health Service-Users

“…In the second strategy, attention is paid more specifically to the rhetorics of work and the ways in which the linguistic choices of social actors position particular activities and identities within or outside of work‐related discourse. Following the work of authors such as Jenness () and Cockburn () who have used similar strategies to examine other marginal work activities such as prostitution and street newspaper vending, such an approach places particular attention on the emic properties of participants' narratives. Alongside these emic and descriptive approaches, throughout the article new vocabularies of work are sought to re‐describe the boundary between mad and sane forms of occupation.…”