Publications

Publication details [#14605]

Cotterill, Janet. 2001. Domestic discord, rocky relationships: semantic prosodies in representations of marital violence in the O.J. Simpson trial. Discourse & Society 12 (3) : 291–312.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | courtroom conversation | forensic linguistics | prosody

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article examines the conflicting semantic prosodies of references to marital violence used by both the prosecution and the defence in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial.