Shonna L. Trinch

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shonna L. Trinch is involved.

Title

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Shonna L. Trinch

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 17] 2003. x, 315 pp.

Articles

Trinch, Shonna L. and Edward Snajdr 2018 Mothering Brooklyn: Signs, sexuality, and gentrification under cover Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 214–237 | Article

This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity formations are used and implicated in transforming urban space. In exploring different ethnographic dimensions to retail… read more

Trinch, Shonna L. 2016 De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret Exploring Language Aggression against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 37–58 | Article

This chapter examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator.… read more

Trinch, Shonna L. 2014 De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret Language Aggression Against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 204–225 | Article

This article examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator.… read more