"Did they really say that?" - The women of Wenatchee: Vulnerability, confessions, and linguistic analysis

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 220-238

  Stygall, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Interrogations; Legal discourse; Vulnerable defendants

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349097380     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424208321140     Document Type: Article

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