FerrazdeAlmeida2026
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | FerrazdeAlmeida2026 |
| Author(s) | Fabio Ferraz de Almeida, Paul Drew |
| Title | CA in forensic linguistics and legal discourse |
| Editor(s) | Matthew Burdelski, Tim Greer |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, forensic linguistics, legal discourse |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 471–488 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781032720852-33 |
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| Book title | The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis |
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Abstract
Some of the earliest empirical research in ethnomethodology (EM)/conversation analysis (CA) concerned interactions in the legal and judicial system. This was a consequence of EM/CA’s premise that there are always and unavoidably alternative versions of reality; there is no more perspicuous site for the conflict between alternative and competing versions of reality than legal settings. This chapter reviews CA studies of interactions, including police-citizen encounters—e.g., emergency calls to the police, police-suspect questioning—and stages of judicial hearings such as pre-trial negotiations and criminal trials. Looking across this range of empirical research, it highlights some of the key analytic themes around which this body of work coheres, namely, turn pre-allocation and specialized turn-taking systems, questioning and strategy, the micro-analysis of power, social actions, and the gestalt of everyday life. To illustrate how communicative practices identified in CA are relevant in understanding interactions in the legal process, the focus turns to self-corrections and formulations. Finally, we offer some ideas about future directions of CA research in this vital field of social life.
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