Description
This book enriches the theory of individuation within Systemic Functional Linguistics, providing an interdisciplinary theoretical model for the study of Individualization, which represents a direct contribution to the study of the theory of individuation. It explains how the counselors in community correction use social symbolic resources to educate the offenders and correct their deviant psychologies and behaviors, and how the offenders use social symbolic resources to achieve their own transformation and reintegration, demonstrating the applicability and social explanatory orientation of the theory of individuation. The book subsequently demonstrates the inherent relationship between the concept of restorative justice and the discourse practice of psycho-correction in community correction, expanding the research scope of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legal Linguistics in the process. It also provides a reference guide for improving the practice of psycho-correction in community correction and can be used for language training of the counselors.
About the Author
Jie Zheng is Associate Professor at the Department of General Education, Sichuan Police College. Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, her fields of research include Forensic Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legal Discourse Studies. Her major research interests are in Forensic Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Discourse Analysis using SFL theories and tools. In recent years, she has published several papers on interdisciplinary research into the community correction discourse.