Socially Committed Discourse Analysis and Social Work Practice

Derrida’s statement stays with me: “Je n’ai qu’une langue et ce n’est pas la mienne” (“I have but one language and it is not mine”). In Le Monolinguisme de l’Autre (1996), Derrida pointed to the disjuncture between a language spoken and loved, and a national identity that had been historically denied. Taking up that phrase differently, social workers are growing incredulous about the way they speak in social work, how they engage with language, …