Abstract
The approach to the analysis described in this chapter was specifically designed as a multi-layered or ‘staged’ response to the aims of this book. Thus, in subsequent chapters, we will be using the analytic tools described here in order to:
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provide a descriptive framework of police-suspect interviews based on linguistic devices and interactional features used in recordings of thirteen police interviews with suspects;
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analyse this description of the interviews and reveal the conversational strategies used by participants as they negotiate the various functional requirements of the interviews; and
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expose the process through which underlying beliefs of the police participants routinely affect the construction of the police interview both as an interaction in time and space and as a socially and culturally situated activity.
The identification of an interview framework based on linguistic devices and interactional features provides a platform for the subsequent microanalysis of participants’ discursive practices. The resulting description of the turn-by-turn construction of the interview will then contribute to the investigation of myths in a police institutional setting and the role of police institutional discourse in the construction of a mythology.
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Heydon, G. (2005). Tools for the Analysis of Police Interviews. In: The Language of Police Interviewing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502932_2
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