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Georgina Heydon, The language of police interviewing: A critical analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

Ana Cristina Ostermann
Ana Cristina Ostermann
Affiliation:
Applied Linguistics, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, RS 93022-000, Brazil, aco@unisinos.br
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Georgina Heydon, The language of police interviewing: A critical analysis. Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 229. Hb $69.95.

This book presents a critical analysis of police interviewing in Australia. The author investigates the role of the police in the police–suspect interview in relation to both the negotiation of power relations between participants and the fulfillment of institutional requirements. Combining the analytical tools provided by interactional sociolinguistics and Conversation Analysis (CA), Heydon investigates recordings of police questioning of adult suspects. These findings are compared to findings of a previous study (Heydon 1997), in which Heydon investigated recordings of the training of police for interviewing children. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to interpret the results of the descriptive analysis.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 462 - 466
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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