A Critical Analysis Of Prisons As Discourse Communities: An Examination Of Whawha Prison Complex.

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ABSTRACT

This research looks at the prison community as a discourse community. The study also

provides a sociolinguistic analysis of the language used at Whawha Medium Offenders

Prison. Through the analysis of language the study also explores certain aspects of prison life

at Whawha prison complex. The study uses the ‘sociolinguistics theory’. The research

examines Whawha Prison Complex as a discourse community, investigates how the inmates

at Whawha Prison Complex use language in a peculiar way, explores the origins of cant,

slang and jargon used at Whawha Prison Complex and also teaches the way prisoners at

Whawha Prison Complex communicate.