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'Komter identifies a very compelling and troubling social phenomenon; in its most colloquial sense ... Her analysis in chapters two and especially three is meticulous and informative, contrasting the distinction between what is said and what is written as a matter of lived work.' Patrick G. Watson, Journal of Pragmatics 'Komter has produced an ultra-detailed and sophisticated analysis of context in motion, a rare masterpiece reminiscent of ethnomethodological classics from the golden era of institutional ethnography ... Her study is must reading for not only those in the ethnomethodological 'community' but also forensic linguists interested in police interviews as well as linguistic anthropologists studying interdiscursivity, extextualization, and multimodality in institutional contexts.' Gregory Matoesian, Discourse Studies 'The Suspect's Statement provides a strong foundation for future studies that can examine the suspect's statement in other contexts, such as judicial opinions and media reports.' Dakota Wing, LINGUIST List 'In this rigorous book, Komter offers a detailed investigation of entextualisation. Any researcher working on how discourse changes as it is decentered and recentered across contexts will profit from including The suspect's statement in her or his theoretical framework... ' Amanda Diniz Vallada, Language in Society

'Komter identifies a very compelling and troubling social phenomenon; in its most colloquial sense ... Her analysis in chapters two and especially three is meticulous and informative, contrasting the distinction between what is said and what is written as a matter of lived work.' Patrick G. Watson, Journal of Pragmatics 'Komter has produced an ultra-detailed and sophisticated analysis of context in motion, a rare masterpiece reminiscent of ethnomethodological classics from the golden era of institutional ethnography ... Her study is must reading for not only those in the ethnomethodological 'community' but also forensic linguists interested in police interviews as well as linguistic anthropologists studying interdiscursivity, extextualization, and multimodality in institutional contexts.' Gregory Matoesian, Discourse Studies 'The Suspect's Statement provides a strong foundation for future studies that can examine the suspect's statement in other contexts, such as judicial opinions and media reports.' Dakota Wing, LINGUIST List

'Komter identifies a very compelling and troubling social phenomenon; in its most colloquial sense … Her analysis in chapters two and especially three is meticulous and informative, contrasting the distinction between what is said and what is written as a matter of lived work.' Patrick G. Watson, Journal of Pragmatics 'Komter has produced an ultra-detailed and sophisticated analysis of context in motion, a rare masterpiece reminiscent of ethnomethodological classics from the golden era of institutional ethnography … Her study is must reading for not only those in the ethnomethodological 'community' but also forensic linguists interested in police interviews as well as linguistic anthropologists studying interdiscursivity, extextualization, and multimodality in institutional contexts.' Gregory Matoesian, Discourse Studies 'The Suspect's Statement provides a strong foundation for future studies that can examine the suspect's statement in other contexts, such as judicial opinions and media reports.' Dakota Wing, LINGUIST List 'In this rigorous book, Komter offers a detailed investigation of entextualisation. Any researcher working on how discourse changes as it is decentered and recentered across contexts will profit from including The suspect's statement in her or his theoretical framework… ' Amanda Diniz Vallada, Language in Society

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Martha Komter is research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam. Her research interests include interaction in institutional settings, such as job interviews, courtroom interaction and police interrogations. She has published widely on these themes, and is author of Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A Study of Talk, Tasks, and Ideas (1991) and Dilemma's in the Courtroom: A Study of Trials of Violent Crime in the Netherlands (1998).

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