Facts, norms and dispositions: Practical uses of the modal verb would in police interrogations

Discourse Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-501

  Edwards, Derek ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Dispositions; Modality; Moral character; Police interrogation; Would

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746118714     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445606064830     Document Type: Review

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