Martha L. Komter

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha L. Komter is involved.

Title

Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A study of talks, tasks and ideas

Martha L. Komter

An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews. The verbal interaction of the participants in the interviews is seen as embedded within wide ideological and institutional environments. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 15] 1991. viii, 252 pp.

Articles

Komter, Martha L. 2008 Frances Rock. Communicating rights: The language of arrest and detention Information Design Journal 16:2, pp. 156–158 | Review

Komter, Martha L. 2007 Het Politieverhoor: Onderzoek en Advies In gesprek, pp. 61–69 | Article

This article illuminates some of the discrepancies between the actual practice of police interrogations and the recommendations in police manuals. What appears to have a significant effect on the interrogations is the practice of typing the records while conducting the interrogation. The resulting… read more

Komter, Martha L. 2003 The construction of records in Dutch police interrogations Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 201–213 | Article

Police records in the Netherlands should be written as much as possible in the suspect’s ‘own words’. However, they show a curious mix of legal phrases and colloquialisms. They are drawn up as first person monologues, which obscures the interactional nature of the interrogation. This article sheds… read more