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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... interlocutors judge cer— tain narrative types quite prescriptively, just as they do non-standard phonological variants and syntactic constituents. Not surprisingly then, to the nonlinguist, non-standard narrative forms (i.e., those non ...
... interlocutors judge cer— tain narrative types quite prescriptively, just as they do non-standard phonological variants and syntactic constituents. Not surprisingly then, to the nonlinguist, non-standard narrative forms (i.e., those non ...
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... interlocutors themselves play a role in creating the very accounts of abuse to which they aim to respond. Moreover, the very act of telling of violence in search of safety from it can create a new position of vulnerability for the ...
... interlocutors themselves play a role in creating the very accounts of abuse to which they aim to respond. Moreover, the very act of telling of violence in search of safety from it can create a new position of vulnerability for the ...
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... for reference. . .” On this same explanatory note, Matoesian (2001: 112) states that interlocutors in interaction “misrecognize the interactional work direct quotes accomplish in context be—. Telling the truth about violence 19.
... for reference. . .” On this same explanatory note, Matoesian (2001: 112) states that interlocutors in interaction “misrecognize the interactional work direct quotes accomplish in context be—. Telling the truth about violence 19.
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... interlocutors of the narrators' rationality and indeed, veracity. Additional sociolinguistic evidence revealing the prevalent and conventional notion that language use acts not in the construction of reality, but only as a mere ...
... interlocutors of the narrators' rationality and indeed, veracity. Additional sociolinguistic evidence revealing the prevalent and conventional notion that language use acts not in the construction of reality, but only as a mere ...
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... interlocutors, or at least warn them of her desire to hold the floor over multi-unit turns. Conversation analysts Sacks (1986) and Jefferson (1978) name this petition for an extended floor space a story preface. Schegloff (1982) argues ...
... interlocutors, or at least warn them of her desire to hold the floor over multi-unit turns. Conversation analysts Sacks (1986) and Jefferson (1978) name this petition for an extended floor space a story preface. Schegloff (1982) argues ...
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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