Jennifer Andrus (University of Utah)

Narratives of Domestic Violence

Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using empirical examples of domestic violence, this book applies critical discourse analysis to interactions between victims and police officers. It will be of interest to researchers and students of discourse analysis, applied linguistics and forensic linguistics and those wishing to know how power and ideology are circulated in discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781108813280
• ISBN-10: 1108813283
• Artikelnr.: 70070775

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Andrus is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on discourse analysis, legal rhetoric, and gender and rhetoric. Dr Andrus's research for the last decade has been on domestic violence and the Anglo-American law of evidence and law enforcement.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Identities, indexicality, and ideology: victim/survivors and police officer storying of domestic violence
1. Domestic violence, violence against women, and patriarchy
2. Toward the recreation of a field of indexicality: domestic violence, social meaning, and ideology
3. Storying the victim/survivor: identity, domestic violence, and discourses of agency
4. Storying policing: identities of police and domestic violence
Conclusions. Toward a reconceptualization of domestic violence
References
Index.