Coerced confessions : the discourse of bilingual police interrogations /

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The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berk-Seligson, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Series:Language, power, and social process ; 25.
Subjects:
Critical discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Bilingualism > Social aspects.
Police questioning > Social aspects.
Intercultural communication > Social aspects.
Analyse critique du discours > Aspect social.
Interrogatoire policier > Aspect social.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Bilingualism > Social aspects
Intercultural communication > Social aspects
Polizei
Vernehmung
Zweisprachigkeit
Diskursanalyse
Hispanos
Polizei.
Vernehmung.
Zweisprachigkeit.
Hispanos.
USA
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: language and institutional power
  • Chapter 2. Interpreting for the police: issues in pre-trial phases of the judicial process
  • Chapter 3. The Miranda warnings and linguistic coercion: the role of footing in the interrogation of a limited-English-speaking murder suspect
  • Chapter 4. Coercion and its limits: admitting to murder but resisting an accusation of attempted rape
  • Chapter 5. Does every yeah mean 'yes' in a police interrogation?
  • Chapter 6. Pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation in a child molestation case
  • Chapter 7. Confessing in the absence of recording: linguistic and extralinguistic evidence of coercion in a police interrogation
  • Chapter 8. Conclusions
  • Backmatter.

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