Publications

Publication details [#64940]

Bartley, Leanne. 2018. Girl A: The Truth about the Rochdale Sex Ring by the Individual Who Stopped Them: A CDA of a Rape Victim’s Testimony. Applied Linguistics 39 (3) : 352–372.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | rape | sex | testimony | transitivity

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study provides a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of a rape victim’s (Girl A) testimony as survivor and stopper of the Rochdale Sex Ring in Greater Manchester (2012). It centers on the transitivity patterns (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014) used in her discourse.