Latinas' Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violenceIn the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be changing their stories, in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence investigates the discourse of protective order interviews, where women apply for court injunctions to keep abusers away. In these encounters, two different versions of violence, each influenced by a range of ethnolinguistic, intertextual and cultural factors, are always produced. This ethnography of Latina women narrating violence suggests that before victims even get to trial, their testimony involves much more than merely telling the truth. This book provides a unique look at pre-trial testimony as a collaborative and dynamic social and cultural act. |
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... field sites who cooperated with me during data collection. Issues of confidentiality preclude me from naming them, but I remain forever grateful to all of the service providers who allowed me to tape-record their daily work with ...
... field sites who cooperated with me during data collection. Issues of confidentiality preclude me from naming them, but I remain forever grateful to all of the service providers who allowed me to tape-record their daily work with ...
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... field sites. In these two cities, protective order interviews are not conducted in the same types of institutions. In Anytown, women in search of assistance go to a district attorney's office, where paralegals are employed to interview ...
... field sites. In these two cities, protective order interviews are not conducted in the same types of institutions. In Anytown, women in search of assistance go to a district attorney's office, where paralegals are employed to interview ...
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... field sites, Latina women represent more than half of the applicants for protective orders. This focus on Latina women is in no way meant to suggest that battering is particular to or even disproportionately common in the U.S. Latino ...
... field sites, Latina women represent more than half of the applicants for protective orders. This focus on Latina women is in no way meant to suggest that battering is particular to or even disproportionately common in the U.S. Latino ...
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... field site. Intake data show that both men and women apply for protective orders against opposite-sex, and to a much more limited degree, same-sex intimate partners.4 However, the majority of the applicants, nearly 91 per cent, or 2,426 ...
... field site. Intake data show that both men and women apply for protective orders against opposite-sex, and to a much more limited degree, same-sex intimate partners.4 However, the majority of the applicants, nearly 91 per cent, or 2,426 ...
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... field to understand what tellers and their listen— ers achieve through narrative both in and for their communities. Even though Polanyi's (1985) analysis of narrative is heavily structural, it is also cultural. By cultural, Polanyi ...
... field to understand what tellers and their listen— ers achieve through narrative both in and for their communities. Even though Polanyi's (1985) analysis of narrative is heavily structural, it is also cultural. By cultural, Polanyi ...
Contents
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5 The protective order interview | 87 |
6 Disappearing acts | 121 |
7 Disfigurement and discrepancy | 155 |
8 Transforming domestic violence into narrative syntax | 191 |
9 Beyond the storytelling taboo | 225 |
10 Discrepant versions and the margins | 269 |
References | 279 |
Glossary of legal terms | 295 |
Author index | 301 |
Subject index | 305 |
STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | 315 |
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Abuser’s name actants affidavit agencies analysis Anytown argue attorney battered women Bauman Bono Law Clinic Briggs Chapter client code-switching communicative Conley context conversation court criminal Critical Discourse Analysis cultural D.A.’s Office defined definition discourse District Attorney’s Office domestic abuse domestic violence elicited evaluative example Fanshel field file final find finding first function gonna happened ideologies incident influence institutional memory interactive institutions interlocutors interpreter kernel Labov and Waletzky Labovian language Latina women linear linguistic meaning Mhmh narrative turns narrators O’Barr officers official oral narrative paralegal’s paralegals participants police reports produced protective order application protective order interview question rape report genre represent representation Rigoberta Menchu service providers sexual assault sexual violence shown in Excerpt social sociolinguistic Someville Spanish speak specific speech event stories and reports structure survivors talk tell threats tion told total institutions types utterances victim’s woman words