Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria

Studies on police interrogation have examined interrogating police officers’ (IPOs’) deployment of power abuse in gleaning confessional statements from suspects. However, studies on how IPOs handle denials during interrogation has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, this study investigates...

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Autores principales:	Adesina Bukunmi Sunday, Temidayo Akinrinlola
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Publicado:	Warsaw University Press 2021
Materias:	police interrogation, criminal cases, rapport management theory, strategies of handling denials, police-suspect interaction, ibadan Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:87d8dc0e13134da7980f633d4ac9e2862021-11-29T17:56:35ZDiscourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria2545-21342657-4187https://doaj.org/article/87d8dc0e13134da7980f633d4ac9e2862021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/297https://doaj.org/toc/2545-2134https://doaj.org/toc/2657-4187Studies on police interrogation have examined interrogating police officers’ (IPOs’) deployment of power abuse in gleaning confessional statements from suspects. However, studies on how IPOs handle denials during interrogation has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, this study investigates discourse strategies of handling denials in police-suspect interaction in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. Spencer-Oatey’s rapport management theory served as theoretical anchor. Recorded police interrogation sessions at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Ìyágankú, Ibadan constituted the data. Four cases (assault, stealing, Internet fraud and robbery) were sampled, owing to their robust manifestation of facial, sociality and interactional cues between IPOs and suspects. While suspects adopt empathic and explanatory forms of denial to threaten IPOs’ goals, IPOs engage lexical, discursive and paralinguistic choices to negotiate discursive acts of appealing to suspects’ needs, constructing testimonies against suspects, emphasising suspects’ rights and engaging detention and investigation to threaten the face, sociality rights and goals of suspects.Adesina Bukunmi SundayTemidayo AkinrinlolaWarsaw University Pressarticlepolice interrogation, criminal cases, rapport management theory, strategies of handling denials, police-suspect interaction, ibadanEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091African languages and literaturePL8000-8844DEENFRStudies in African Languages and Cultures, Vol 0, Iss 55, Pp 87-109 (2021)
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topic	police interrogation, criminal cases, rapport management theory, strategies of handling denials, police-suspect interaction, ibadan Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844
spellingShingle	police interrogation, criminal cases, rapport management theory, strategies of handling denials, police-suspect interaction, ibadan Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844 Adesina Bukunmi Sunday Temidayo Akinrinlola Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
description	Studies on police interrogation have examined interrogating police officers’ (IPOs’) deployment of power abuse in gleaning confessional statements from suspects. However, studies on how IPOs handle denials during interrogation has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, this study investigates discourse strategies of handling denials in police-suspect interaction in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. Spencer-Oatey’s rapport management theory served as theoretical anchor. Recorded police interrogation sessions at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Ìyágankú, Ibadan constituted the data. Four cases (assault, stealing, Internet fraud and robbery) were sampled, owing to their robust manifestation of facial, sociality and interactional cues between IPOs and suspects. While suspects adopt empathic and explanatory forms of denial to threaten IPOs’ goals, IPOs engage lexical, discursive and paralinguistic choices to negotiate discursive acts of appealing to suspects’ needs, constructing testimonies against suspects, emphasising suspects’ rights and engaging detention and investigation to threaten the face, sociality rights and goals of suspects.
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title	Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_short	Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_full	Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_fullStr	Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed	Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_sort	discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in ibadan, nigeria
publisher	Warsaw University Press
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Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria

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