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Publication details [#38547]

McElhinny, Bonny. 2003. Fearful, forceful agents of the law: ideologies about language and gender in police officers' narratives about the use of physical force. Pragmatics 13 (2) : 253–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | ideology | institutional context | language | narrative

Place, Publisher

IPRA

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper examines language ideologies and gender by investigating narratives of male and female, Black and White Pittsburgh police officers about the use of physical force.