Publications

Publication details [#25453]

Linell, Per, Lotta Alemyr and Linda Jonsson. 1993. Admission of guilt as a communicative project in judicial settings. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (2) : 153–176.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acknowledging | denying | law | legalese | speech act theory

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This capacious corpus of court trials and police interrogations establishes guilt admissions or denials as communicative acts, involving two parties, the professional interviewer and the defendant, thus refuting speech-act theory.