Narratives of Domestic Violence - Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Andrus, Jennifer (University of Utah) Andrus, Andrus Jennifer
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781108813280
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81328-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 353 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; 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