Overview

IMPACT publishes monographs, collective volumes, and text books on topics in sociolinguistics. The scope of the series is broad, with special emphasis on areas such as language planning and language policies; language conflict and language death; language standards and language change; dialectology; diglossia; discourse studies; language and social identity (gender, ethnicity, class, ideology); and history and methods of sociolinguistics.

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Author:   Shonna L. Trinch (Florida State University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.745kg
ISBN:  

9789027218551

ISBN 10:   9027218552
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   24 November 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. List of figures and tables; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. 1. Narrating violence in institutional settings; 4. 2. Telling the truth about violence: Language ideology and the function of narrative structure; 5. 3. Representation, ownership and genre: Language ideologies of narrative production and performance; 6. 4. Telling and re-telling: Latina narrators interacting with institutions; 7. 5. The protective order interview: A linguistic tug-of-war for representation; 8. 6. Disappearing acts: Power, control, opposition and omission; 9. 7. Disfigurement and discrepancy: Taking the story out of the report; 10. 8. Transforming domestic violence into narrative syntax; 11. 9. Beyond the storytelling taboo: Latinas' narratives and sexual violence; 12. 10. Discrepant versions and the margins: Truth or consequence for Latina battered women?; 13. References; 14. Appendix. Glossary of legal terms; 15. Author index; 16. Subject index

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