Publications

Publication details [#64849]

Gaines, Philip. 2018. Presupposition as investigator certainty in a police interrogation: The case of Lorenzo Montoya’s false confession. Discourse & Society 29 (4) : 399–419.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

certainty | confessing | crime | interrogation | presupposition

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper proposes an assay of police investigators' employment of presupposition-bearing questions (PBQs) in interrogation as a process for conveying sureness of debt.