"I've got a girlfriend" Police officers doing 'self-disclosure' in their interrogations of suspects

Narrative Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 154-182

  Stokoe, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Alignment; Conversation analysis; Discursive psychology; Police interrogation; Self disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849101078     PISSN: 13876740     EISSN: 15699935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ni.19.1.09sto     Document Type: Article

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