Narratives of Domestic Violence - Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

Zusatztext 'This book is an elegant and clearly written account grounded on the experiences and vivid language used by fifty participants in domestic violence cases. This interview-based research compares side by side the responses and feelings of both the victims/survivors and the police, concluding that there is a need to have more fluency between victims and police interviewers, for the police to believe the survivors, and for the survivors to have more trust in the police. One strength of the book is its many direct quotes about the survivors' struggles to articulate their physical and mental fears, and the shame and even guilt that is generated from their experiences.' Roger W. Shuy, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, Georgetown University Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Andrus is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on discourse analysis, legal rhetoric, and gender and rhetoric. Dr Andrus's research for the last decade has been on domestic violence and the Anglo-American law of evidence and law enforcement. Klappentext Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions. Zusammenfassung Using empirical examples of domestic violence, this book applies critical discourse analysis to interactions between victims and police officers. It will be of interest to researchers and students of discourse analysis, applied linguistics and forensic linguistics and those wishing to know how power and ideology are circulated in discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Identities, indexicality, and ideology: victim/survivors and police officer storying of domestic violence; 1. Domestic violence, violence against women, and patriarchy; 2. Toward the recreation of a field of indexicality: domestic violence, social meaning, and ideology; 3. Storying the victim/survivor: identity, domestic violence, and discourses of agency; 4. Storying policing: identities of police and domestic violence; Conclusions. Toward a reconceptualization of domestic violence; References; Index....

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• Authors: Jennifer Andrus, Jennifer (University of Utah) Andrus, Andrus Jennifer, Andrus Jennifer Andrus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108839525
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83952-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Social issues & processes, Gender studies, gender groups, domestic violence, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Social and ethical issues, Domestic abuse, ELT: teaching theory & methods