The Language of Sexual Crime

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by  Cotterill Janet (Editor)

The Language of Sexual
Crime
Edited by
Janet Cotterill
The Language of Sexual Crime
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The Language of Sexual
Crime
Editedby
Janet Cotterill
CardiffUniversity
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Contents
ListofTables vii
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgements x
NotesontheContributors xi
1 RapeasSocialActivity:anApplicationofInvestigative
Linguistics 1
Tim Grant and Jessica Woodhams
2 TheElicitationofaConfession:AdmittingMurderbutResisting
anAccusationofAttemptedRape 16
Susan Berk-Seligson
3 ‘JustGoodFriends’:ManagingtheClashofDiscoursesinPolice
InterviewswithPaedophiles 42
Kelly Benneworth
4 TheQuestioningofChildWitnessesbythePoliceandinCourt:
aLinguisticComparison 63
Michelle Aldridge
5 TheLanguageofConsentinRapeLaw 83
Peter M. Tiersma
6 TheRepertoireofComplicityvs.Coercion:theDiscursiveTrapof
theRapeTrialProtocol 104
Diane Ponterotto
7 NormativeDiscoursesandRepresentationsofCoercedSex 126
Susan Ehrlich
8 Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of
VulnerableWitnesses 139
Ester S. M. Leung and John Gibbons
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9 TheVictimas‘Other’:AnalysisoftheLanguageofAcquittal
DecisionsinSexualOffencesintheIsraeliSupremeCourt 159
Bryna Bogoch
10 SentencingSexualAbuseOffenders:SexCrimesandSocial
Justice 180
Clare MacMartin and Linda A. Wood
11 WhenRapeis(notquite)Rape 198
Annabelle Mooney
12 At the Hands of the Brothers: a Corpus-based
Lexico-grammaticalAnalysisofStanceinNewspaperReporting
ofChildSexualAbuseCases 217
Anne O’Keeffe and Michael J. Breen
Index 237
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List of Tables
1.1 Linguisticstrategies 9
1.2 Classificationoftherapist’sutterances 11
4.1 Breakdownbyageofthechildreninthestudy 67
4.2 Percentageofquestionsaddressedtothechildrenasopen
wh-questionsinthetwosettings 75
4.3 Percentageofquestionssummarisedbyagebands 75
4.4 Percentage of questions answered ‘appropriately’ by
childreninthestudy 76
4.5 Percentage of questions answered ‘appropriately’
summarisedbyagebands 76
4.6 Level of difficulty experienced by children with the
differentquestionforms 77
4.7 Meansofquestionsaskedateachage,numberofincorrect
responses,non-responsesand‘noopportunitytorespond’ 78
4.8 Meansofquestionsaskedateachage,numberofincorrect
responses,non-responsesand‘noopportunitytorespond’,
groupedinto3-yearagebands 78
4.9 Proportion of ‘wh’ and ‘other’ questions with ‘no
opportunitytorespond’inthepoliceandcourtsetting 79
6.1a Thecross-examiner’sscript 117
6.1b Thecross-examiner’sscript 118
6.2a Thevictim’sscript 119
6.2b Thevictim’sscript 119
6.3 Malescriptvs.femalescript:complicityvs.coercion 120
6.4 Societal expectations of victims vs. reality of victims’
experience 120
6.5 Societalexpectationsofwomen’sbehaviourincourt 121
9.1 AcquittalsintheSupremeCourt,1988–1993 163
11.1 Corpusofnewspaperarticlesandeditorials 200
12.1 Analyticalframeworkfortheanalysisofstance 219
12.2 SamplefromconcordancelineofabusefromtheITNCB
corpus(sorted1L.2L) 221
12.3 Breakdownofcollocatesofabuse 221
12.4 Asampleoftheconcordancelineforatthehandsof(AllCB) 222
12.5 StanceadverbsintheITNCBdata 224
12.6 StanceadverbsintheITCBdata 224
12.7 Stanceadverbsin300-lyitemsamplefromAllCBdata 225
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viii ListofTables
12.8 SampleofstancecomplementclausesintheITNCBcorpus 226
12.9 SampleofstancecomplementclausesintheITCBcorpus 226
12.10 Instancesofstancenounscontrollingprepositionalphrases
inITNCBcorpus(the∗ of) 229
12.11 Instancesofstancenounscontrollingprepositionalphrases
inITNCBcorpus(a∗ of) 230
12.12 Instancesofstancenounscontrollingprepositionalphrases
inITCBcorpus 230
12.13 Instancesofstancenounscontrollingprepositionalphrases
inITCBcorpus 230
12.14 Samplesofpremodifyingadverbsofadjectivesornounsin
theITNCBcorpus 232
12.15 Samplesofpremodifyingadverbsofadjectivesornounsin
theITCBcorpus 232
12.16 Profileofallreportingverbsusedacrossthecorpora 234
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List of Figures
12.1 Stanceadverbsper1,000wordsinITNCBandITCBcorpora 224
12.2 Stancecomplementclauses 225
12.3 Percentage of stance complement clauses relating to
individualabusecases 227
12.4 Frequencyprofileofcentralmodalverbsacrosscorpora 227
12.5 Semi-modalverbsdistributionprofileacrossITNCB,ITCB
andAllCB 228
12.6 StancenounscontrollingprepositionalphrasesinITNCB
andITCBcorpora(per1,000words) 231
12.7 Occurrencesofstanceadverbpremodifyingadjectivesor
nounsinITNCBandITCBdata 231
12.8 Percentageofpremodifyingstanceadverbsofadjectivesor
nounsrelatingtospecificcases 233
12.9 Totalresultsforunmarkedreportingverbs:says;said;tells;told 233
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