Latinas' Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violenceJohn Benjamins Publishing, 24/11/2003 - 315 páginas In 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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... happened to us, to understand what is occur— ring in our immediate interactions and to predict what might happen to us in our potential encounters. While several competing linguistic forms, or representations, may co-exist at any given ...
... happened to us, to understand what is occur— ring in our immediate interactions and to predict what might happen to us in our potential encounters. While several competing linguistic forms, or representations, may co-exist at any given ...
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... happened. . .1 Wednesday evening. The fifteenth? Yes. About what time? After seven-thirty in the evening. Between seven-thirty and nine (around there) (.06) Tell me what happened between you. Uh, when I arrived in my home, he was in my ...
... happened. . .1 Wednesday evening. The fifteenth? Yes. About what time? After seven-thirty in the evening. Between seven-thirty and nine (around there) (.06) Tell me what happened between you. Uh, when I arrived in my home, he was in my ...
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... happened to be her baby's father. The above interview raises two important questions for an understanding of narratives of domestic violence in the U.S. legal system. First, what is the purpose of recounting intimate-partner abuse in ...
... happened to be her baby's father. The above interview raises two important questions for an understanding of narratives of domestic violence in the U.S. legal system. First, what is the purpose of recounting intimate-partner abuse in ...
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... happened within a discrete incident of violence. In the first mention of the verbal abuse, her speech activity could be defined as a loose description of a series of violent acts. Schiffrin (1994) would characterize this distinction as ...
... happened within a discrete incident of violence. In the first mention of the verbal abuse, her speech activity could be defined as a loose description of a series of violent acts. Schiffrin (1994) would characterize this distinction as ...
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... happened in the past? Part of the answer may be found in how Western theorists throughout history have formally ... happening — consisting of a commencement that is followed by a particular and sequential trajectory, which is eventually ...
... happened in the past? Part of the answer may be found in how Western theorists throughout history have formally ... happening — consisting of a commencement that is followed by a particular and sequential trajectory, which is eventually ...
Índice
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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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Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence Shonna L. Trinch Pré-visualização limitada - 2003 |
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Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence Shonna L. Trinch Pré-visualização indisponível - 2003 |
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