Fragmented Narratives and Multiple Tellers: Witness and Defendant Accounts in Trials

Discourse Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-74

  Harris, Sandra ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

courtroom; evidence; narrative; narrative structures; strategic discourse; trials; witness accounts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993710539     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445601003001003     Document Type: Article

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