Alison J. Johnson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alison J. Johnson is involved.

Articles

Johnson, Alison J. 2018 Chapter 2. “How came you not to cry out?”: Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730–1798 Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 41–64 | Chapter

This study explores the representation of child rape victims through an examination of the pragmatic effects of negative questioning in eighteenth century trial records in the Old Bailey Proceedings (Hitchcock et al., 2012). We see how victim identities are linguistically constructed through… read more

Johnson, Alison J. 2008 Changing stories: Achieving a change of state in suspect and witness knowledge through evaluation in police interviews with suspects and witnesses Evaluation in text types, Bednarek, Monika (ed.), pp. 84–114 | Article

Evaluation is central to Labov and Waletzky’s (1997) narrative model; without it stories lack any ‘point’. But in narratives elicited from witnesses and suspects at the start of police interviews, evaluation is markedly sparse or absent. This paper examines the presence of three kinds of… read more