Aimed at linguists and sociologists working on discourse and conversation analysis, as well as scholars of law, this book examines how a suspect's statement is elicited and written down, how it systematically differs from how the statement was spoken, and how it is quoted in court.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author(s): Martha Komter
Illustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white
Number of pages: 219
Collection: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics