The Suspect's Statement: Talk and Text in the Criminal Process

ISBN-13: 9781107698772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 219 str.

Martha Komter

Opis

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.

Recenzje

'In this rigorous book, Komter offers a detailed investigation of entextualisation. Any researcher working on how discourse changes as it is decentered and recentered across contexts will profit from including The suspect's statement in her or his theoretical framework… ' Amanda Diniz Vallada, Language in Society

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The police interrogation: the talk, the typing and the text; 3. The police report: the document, the text and the talk; 4. The trial: documents in action; 5. The career of a suspect's statement; 6. Conclusion and discussion.