Publications

Publication details [#51314]

Bucholtz, Mary. 2009. Captured on tape: professional hearing and competing entextualizations in the criminal justice system. Text & Talk 29 (5) : 503–523.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | crime | entextualization | ideology | transcription system

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how legal entextualizations in the (American) criminal justice system, whether favoring or prejudicing defendants, picture dialogically constructed discourse representations as monologic, objective facts, in order to cultivate an institutional neutrality ideology.