Gonzalez-Martinez2011

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Gonzalez-Martinez2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key Gonzalez-Martinez2011
Author(s) Esther González-Martínez
Title Just telling what is going to happen: the initial phase of a judicial social investigation interview
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Tag(s) EMCA, investigator-suspect interviews, French
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Year 2011
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Journal Nottingham French Studies
Volume 50
Number 2
Pages 154–176
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DOI 10.3366/nfs.2011-2.008
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Abstract

This article analyses the sequential and situated organisation of the initial phase of social investigator-suspect interviews in the framework of French accelerated criminal procedures. The social investigator starts the interview by introducing a preliminary telling activity in which she announces and presents it and the subsequent steps of the procedure to the suspect. This activity is accomplished through an extended turn at talk by the investigator which indicates that more talk is to come and makes turn transition irrelevant. From time to time the investigator intersects tokens like 'okay?', 'huh?' and 'all right? which segment the telling and display that an element has just been delivered. In most cases, these tokens neither solicit nor obtain agreement with, confirmation of, or marks ofunderstanding of what has been said. They are part ofthe interlocutors' interactive work ofproducing a non-binding activity, a telling just to be delivered and received.

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