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Publication details [#12095]

Briggs, Charles L. 1997. Notes on a "Confession": On the construction of gender, sexuality, and violence in an infanticide case. Pragmatics 7 (4) : 519–546.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | interaction | narrative, production of | power

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

A study of the construction of textual representations of interaction (i.e. murder confessions). It is noted that the use of such representations widens the scope of narrative analysis and as such, may further our understanding of interaction and the effects of institutional contexts.