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Publication details [#14450]

Ehrlich, Susan. 1998. The discursive reconstruction of sexual consent. Discourse & Society 9 (2) : 149–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | dominance | gender | ideology | institutional language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is argued that the ideological framing of a sexual assault tribunal discourse in terms of (a 'defiency model' of) miscommunication between women and men allows the deflection of the defendant's accountability for the sexual harassment (acquintance rape).