Publications

Publication details [#56814]

Komter, Martha. 2012. The career of a suspect’s statement: Talk, text, context. Discourse Studies 14 (6) : 731–752.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | courtroom | interrogation | speech | text

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This step-by-step analysis shows how a criminal suspect’s statement is taken out of a police interrogation context, recontextualized in a trial setting, and considered as context independent by the courtroom judge.