The Language of Police Interviewing

Download or read book The Language of Police Interviewing written by G. Heydon and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview techniques. This new study uses tools drawn from interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis for a detailed study of some police questioning of adult suspects, and work undertaken in the training of police in interviewing children - in which quite different approaches seem to be adopted. Critical discourse analytic techniques are used in interpreting the outcome and the implications for training are explored.