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Publication details [#64897]

Labotka, Lori. 2018. “I have to read it out loud”: Intertextuality in prison discipline. Language in Society 47 (2) : 269–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hearing2 | intertextuality | legal text | power | prison

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper joins ethnographic and linguistic assay to illustrate a judicial facet of the US criminal justice system: prison disciplinary hearings. Centering on one woman's (Cherry's) hearing, it ponders force remaking via bureaucratic procedure.