The career of a suspect's statement: Talk, text, context

Discourse Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 731-752

  Komter, Martha ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context; courtroom interaction; decontextualization; entextualization; interaction; police interrogation; police report; recontextualization; reported speech; sequential organization of talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871360335     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445612457486     Document Type: Article

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