Publications
Publication details [#63891]
Childs, Carrie and Dave Walsh. 2018. Paradoxical Invitations: Challenges in Soliciting More Information from Child Witnesses. Research on Language & Social Interaction 51 (4) : 363–378.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
When interviewing children stating their being victim of claimed sex offenses, police officers will, usually during interview closure, query interviewees if they would like to affix to what has been told or if they have any queries. Using Conversation Analysis, it is displayed that uttering such invitations at interview closure makes them conflicting.