Nailing down an answer: Participations of power in trial talk

Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 733-759

  Matoesian, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Intertextualitiy; Legal discourse; Linguistic ideology; Multimodal discourse; Participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144438794     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445605055424     Document Type: Review

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