Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law - The Invocation Game

"Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this book provides an examination of the role of United States federal law in shaping the invocation game of police interrogation. It is [intended] for researchers and students in the fields of forensic linguistics, law and society, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. In the judges' own words: the law and custodial interrogation in the United States; 3. Police interrogation in the United States: from the Reid technique to the high value detainee interrogation group report; 4. The invocation game: the prelude to custodial interrogation; 5. Invocations for counsel, the rulings and the courts: a statistical analysis of the corpus; 6. Police interrogation reform in the United States: paths to consider; Appendices; Index.

About the author

Marianne Mason is an Associate Professor at James Madison University. Notable publications include The Discourse of Police Interviews (co-edited, 2020) and Courtroom Interpreting (2008). In 2018, she received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Mason, Marianne (James Madison University Mason, Mason Marianne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781316511527
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51152-7
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; USA, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc