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Publication details [#66194]

Seuren, Lucas M. 2019. Questioning in court: The construction of direct examinations. Discourse Studies 21 (3) : 340–357.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | courtroom conversation | examination | question | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper elucidates the matter of how partakers do an examination beyond courtroom's unique turn-taking system by exploring the question design during the direct examination in an American criminal court case employing conversation analysis.