Police Talk
| Number: | P84 |
| Organizer: | Martínez, Esther González |
| Co-Organizer: | Mardi Kidwell |
| Abstract: | |
| In their work, police officers are involved in numerous situations in which talk-in-interaction plays a key role. Although a relatively new content area for conversation analysts, researchers have examined police work in citizen calls to emergency dispatchers (Whalen, Zimmerman, 1990), interventions at crime scenes (Kidwell, 2006; Relieu, 1993), interrogations and interviews (Komter, 2006; Stokoe, Edwards, 2008; Watson, 1983), and the lodging of complaints and court depositions (Atkinson, Drew, 1979; Fornel, 1988). This work has identified conversational structures, category organizations and embodied practices that make it possible to carry out actions – accusing, defending, confessing, producing evidence, managing situations of tension – that are specific to police work. For our upcoming panel we are seeking contributions which analyze talk-in-interaction situations involving the police. The analyses should be based on audio or video recordings and focus closely on how actions are produced via the sequential, situated and shared organization of speech. The submissions will chiefly apply conversation analysis, promote the integration of developments in multimodal and categorization analysis, as well as dialogue with other discursive approaches. The panel will bring together current experts in the field in a context conducive to precise analysis and interdisciplinary dialogue. |
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