Matoesian2005

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Matoesian2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Matoesian2005
Author(s) Gregory M. Matoesian
Title Nailing down an answer: participations of power in trail talk
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Tag(s) EMCA, Courtroom Interaction, Trials, Questioning, Identity, Power
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Year 2005
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 7
Number 6
Pages 733–759
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DOI 10.1177/1461445605055424
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Abstract

This article examines a questioning strategy in trial crossexamination designed to control an evasive witness, and how that control functions through the interactive contours of verbal and visual conduct to index identity, construct multidimensional forms of participation and project intertextual relations. In the process of nailing down an answer, attorney and witness manipulate linguistic ideologies and project participations of power to calibrate the epistemological criteria for determining the legitimacy of legal realities. I demonstrate how indexical iconicities of trial dialogic form emerge as a contested ritual of truth in the situated details of multimodal discursive practices.

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