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Linguistically challenged

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Chris Goddard
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Abstract

Every day, health and welfare workers translate the needs of the disadvantaged into words that communicate those troubles to others. Such translations (or interpretations) run the risk of reducing or changing the experiences to allow them to fit with the expectations and demands of organisations and bureaucracies. This column draws upon the author’s reflections on a complex and important, but rarely studied, aspect of social welfare practice.

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Not the last word: point and counterpoint
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Children Australia , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 38 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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