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Publication details [#58436]

Sneijder, Petra and Fleur van der Houwen. 2014. From text to talk in criminal court: Prosecuting, defending, and examining the evidence. Language & Communication 36 : 37–52.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how case file references by different involved professionals in a Dutch criminal court trial are chosen to build event versions and how their sequential insertion adds to obtaining these different versions while pursuing their respective institutional goals. As witnesses are rarely heard anew in Dutch criminal court, it is important to grasp how their written voices are revived.