Alison J. Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison J. Johnson plays a role.
Articles
Chapter 2. “How came you not to cry out?”: Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730–1798 Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 41–64 | Chapter
2018 This study explores the representation of child rape victims through an examination of the pragmatic effects of negative questioning in eighteenth century trial records in the Old Bailey Proceedings (Hitchcock et al., 2012). We see how victim identities are linguistically constructed through… read more
Changing stories: Achieving a change of state in suspect and witness knowledge through evaluation in police interviews with suspects and witnesses Evaluation in text types, Bednarek, Monika (ed.), pp. 84–114 | Article
2008 Evaluation is central to Labov and Waletzky’s (1997) narrative model; without it stories lack any ‘point’. But in narratives elicited from witnesses and suspects at the start of police interviews, evaluation is markedly sparse or absent. This paper examines the presence of three kinds of… read more