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Publication details [#58434]

Charldorp, Tessa Van. 2014. “What happened?” From talk to text in police interrogations. Language & Communication 36 : 7–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | interrogation | professional language | story, production of | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how police officers transform suspects' stories into a written story according to their own structure and chronology, an institutionalization process which already starts off in the interaction and endures when remodeling talk into text.