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Publication details [#64768]

Childs, Carrie and Dave Walsh. 2018. Paradoxical Invitations: Challenges in Soliciting More Information from Child Witnesses. Research on Language and Social Interaction 51 (4) : 363–378.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

When interviewing children declaring their being victim of supposed sexual crimes, police officers solicit more information from Child witnesses during interview closure, following formal guidelines. Employing Conversation Analysis, this paper displays that sending up such invitations at interview closure gets them paradoxical.