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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... ideologies of narrative production and performance CHAPTER 4 Telling and re-telling: Latina narrators interacting with institutions CHAPTER 5 The protective order interview: A linguistic tug-of-war for representation CHAPTER 6 ...
... ideologies of narrative production and performance CHAPTER 4 Telling and re-telling: Latina narrators interacting with institutions CHAPTER 5 The protective order interview: A linguistic tug-of-war for representation CHAPTER 6 ...
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... ideologies regarding truth and authorship serve in the construction of authority and credibility for the production of appropriate and meaningful representations of abuse. Among its many functions, language is the structuring mechanism ...
... ideologies regarding truth and authorship serve in the construction of authority and credibility for the production of appropriate and meaningful representations of abuse. Among its many functions, language is the structuring mechanism ...
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... ideologies are certainly not confined to the institutions of the US. Justice System, but their prevalence in this important social arena is significant, because what women are held accountable for having said may have serious ...
... ideologies are certainly not confined to the institutions of the US. Justice System, but their prevalence in this important social arena is significant, because what women are held accountable for having said may have serious ...
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... ideologies of interpretation that are prevalent in U.S. culture. These interpretive ideologies prescribe not only that a woman own her story, but also that her purpose for telling it be to provide her listener with a set of utterances ...
... ideologies of interpretation that are prevalent in U.S. culture. These interpretive ideologies prescribe not only that a woman own her story, but also that her purpose for telling it be to provide her listener with a set of utterances ...
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... ideologies that privilege some representations of the past over others. According to Woolard (1998:3) language ideologies are “representations, whether explicit or implicit, that construe the intersection of language and human beings in ...
... ideologies that privilege some representations of the past over others. According to Woolard (1998:3) language ideologies are “representations, whether explicit or implicit, that construe the intersection of language and human beings in ...
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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