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Publication details [#42674]

Chong Ho Shon, Phillip. 2005. I'd grab the S-O-B by his hair and yank him out the window’: The fraternal order of warnings and threats in police–citizen encounters. Discourse & Society 16 (6) : 829–845.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | institutional context | threatening | warning

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper investigates the fraternal speech acts of ‘warnings’ and 'threats' that police officers make to motorists during traffic stops, and to citizens and suspects during routine police patrol work.