Susan Ehrlich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90287 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Ehrlich |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Ehrlich |
| FIRMA | EHRLICH S |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Language and Gendered Violence in the Legal System
In spite of widespread statutory reform to rape and sexual assault laws within Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other legal systems derived from the British common law system, many feminist scholars and practitioners have lamented the failure of sexual assault and rape cases to live up to their statutory ideals. A similar situation exists with respect to domestic violence law reform: while domestic violence has been criminalized…
Towards a New Chapter for Language in Society
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Looking back - Looking ahead
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Writing or reading? An incommensurable choice? [Language in Society]
In this article, we reflect upon Wolfgang Klein's provocative suggestion, in Writing or reading, but not both or: a proposal to reintroduce cuneiform writing using the hammer and chisel, that "every scientist" at universities or other research institutions "may and must publish exactly thirty pages a year." In our view, Klein's proposal to limit the number of pages each author should be allotted in a given year is comparable to a pill that treats…
Intersections of race and gender in sexual assault trials
This essay traces the development of intersectionality theory within the field of language and gender in relation to research on the language of rape trials. In early work on the topic, I used Judith Butler’s notion of the ‘rigid regulatory frame’ to understand the cultural intelligibility of certain kinds of rape victims in the legal system and the unintelligibility of others. But the inequities that complainants often experience in rape trials …
Language in Society - 50 years
It has been a year since we took over as co-editors of Language in Society from Jenny Cheshire, and we are honoured to be able to celebrate the journal's 50th anniversary. Established in 1972 by Dell Hymes, Language in Society has aimed since its inception to be an academic platform which not only showcases research on 'all aspects of language as part of social life' (Hymes 1972:13), but also and most importantly leads 'to a reconstruction of soc…
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Research on language and gender encompasses a variety of methods and focuses on many aspects of linguistic structure. This review traces the historical development of the field, explicating some of the major debates, including the need to move from a reductive focus on difference and dichotomous views of gender to more performative notions of identity. It explains how the field has come to include language, gender, and sexuality and how queer the…
Well, I saw the picture’
Cultural norms surrounding heterosexuality have been shown to influence legal and popular understandings of rape. In particular, Nicola Gavey has proposed that normative ideas about men’s aggressive, hard-to-control sexuality and women’s passive, acquiescing sexuality operate as a ‘cultural scaffold’ for rape – they provide a sense-making framework that allows rape to be understood as ‘just sex’. This paper, a case study of the 2013 Steubenville …
Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process
Consent is one of the foundational principles of Western liberal legalism, although legal doctrine is surprisingly inattentive to how it is constructed and contested. This book explores the linguistic and discursive dimensions of consent—and the processes involved in eliciting what the law considers to be consent—in a wide variety of sociolegal settings. The authors are experts in linguistics and law and use diverse theoretical and analytical app…
Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process
Experts in linguistics and law use diverse theoretical and analytical approaches to demonstrate the complex ways in which language is used to seek, steer, give, or withhold consent in a range of legal contexts. The book illuminates problematic issues in legal practices and procedures that may otherwise be uncritically accepted
Sociolinguistic' dimensions of discourse analysis
The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
The Handbook Of Language Gender And Sexuality
Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Text trajectories, legal discourse and gendered inequalities
Following Blommaert (2005), this paper examines what he calls a ‘forgotten’ context within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) – that of text trajectories. For Blommaert, a limitation of both CDA and CA is their focus on “the unique, one-time” instance of a given text and, by extension, the (limited) context associated with such an instance of text. Such a focus, according to Blommaert, ignores a salient feature of co…
The Strategic Marginalization of Working Class Masculinity in a Batterers’ Treatment Programme
In this paper, we consider how ideologies about heterosexual working class masculinity play a symbolic role for middle-class, educated men in the context of a batterers’ treatment programme. We suggest that the middle class, educated men who are the focus of this paper create identities for themselves by a process of differentiation, in particular, by distancing themselves from the majority of the men in the batterers’ group who supposedly embody…
Why do you ask
1. The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction 2. The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony 3. Questioning in Medicine 4. Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline 5. Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction 6. Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations 7. Pursuing Views…
The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
Chapter 1, written by the volume's editors, Susan Ehrlich and Alice Freed, provides an overview of the fourteen chapters of this volume and makes its own contribution to the study of questioning in institutional discourse. Ehrlich and Freed discuss various descriptions of questions, provide a working definition of questions that combines functional and sequential dimensions, and review earlier studies of questions in institutional discourse. The …
Legal discourse and the cultural intelligiblity of gendered meanings1
This paper considers the methodological challenges that 'post-modern' approaches to gender (Cameron 2005) pose for the field of language and gender. If we assume that gender cannot be 'read off' the identities of speakers, but rather is a social process by which individuals come to make cultural sense, then how do we best investigate this process? AsStokoe (2005)andStokoe and Smithson (2002)have argued, it is problematic within such frameworks to…
I think that's not an assumption you ought to make
This article examines data drawn from a 2001 Ontario (Canada) provincial inquiry into the deaths of seven people as a result of water contamination in a small Ontario town. The examination focuses on question-answer sequences in which the premier of Ontario, Michael Harris, attempted to resist lawyers' attempts to control and restrict his responses. In particular, on the basis of the data it is argued that the power of cross-examining lawyers doe…
Representing Rape
Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under i…
(Re)contextualizing compaintants’ accounts of sexual assault
By comparing data from a sexual assault criminal trial and a sexual assault civil trial, this article shows how counter-hegemonic frameworks can be incorporated into institutional discourse. More specifically, I explore the ways in which feminist discourses or ideological ‘frames’ regarding women and sexual violence can be introduced into the discursive space of a trial, resulting in the contextualizing of complainants’ experiences of sexual assa…
Discourse, Gender and Sexual Violence
Legal institutions, nonspeaking recipiency and participants' orientations
In this article, I explore the question of what constitutes a participant's orientation to gender within conversation analysis (CA), suggesting that CA's notion of participant orientation may be too narrow and restrictive to adequately capture the significance of gender as an organizing principle of institutions. The data that I analyze are drawn from legal settings, specifically a Canadian criminal trial dealing with sexual assault. Significant …
Communities of practice, gender, and the representation of sexual assault
This article investigates the utility of Eckert & McConnell-Ginet's concept of “community of practice” for an analysis of the language used by women in a sexual assault tribunal. It is shown how the questions asked by two tribunal members (a male and a female faculty member), in a university sexual “harassment” tribunal, function to (re)frame and (re)construct the events in question as consensual sex. Although the female complainants (i.e. victim…
Why do you ask
1. The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction 2. The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony 3. Questioning in Medicine 4. Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline 5. Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction 6. Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations 7. Pursuing Views…
Gender-Based Language Reform and the Social Construction of Meaning
In this article we consider the implications of the social construction of meaning for the possibility of language reform. Since meanings are socially determined and since the dominant culture is sexist, it is not surprising that women's meanings are often appropriated by that culture and that gender-based language reform is not always successful. Based on an analysis of attempts at gender-based language reform in Canada and in particular at York…
Legal discourse and the cultural intelligiblity of gendered meanings1
This paper considers the methodological challenges that 'post-modern' approaches to gender (Cameron 2005) pose for the field of language and gender. If we assume that gender cannot be 'read off' the identities of speakers, but rather is a social process by which individuals come to make cultural sense, then how do we best investigate this process? AsStokoe (2005)andStokoe and Smithson (2002)have argued, it is problematic within such frameworks to…
The Discursive Reconstruction of Sexual Consent
This paper explores the discursive means by which a defendant in a sexual assault tribunal attempts to represent or construct himself as innocent. The relative success of discursive strategies in deflecting the defendant's accountability for the sexual assault in question, I argue, is directly related to the ideological perspective that `frames' the proceedings of the tribunal. More specifically, I demonstrate how what Crawford (1995) calls a def…
Feminist meanings and the (de)politicization of the lexicon
In arguing for the necessity of gender-based language reform, feminist theorists have generally assumed that language is not a neutral and transparent means of representing reality. Rather, language is assumed to codify an androcentric worldview. While sexist language clearly reflects sexist social practices, the continuing existence of such practices throws into question the possibility of successful language reform. Because linguistic meanings …
I think that's not an assumption you ought to make
This article examines data drawn from a 2001 Ontario (Canada) provincial inquiry into the deaths of seven people as a result of water contamination in a small Ontario town. The examination focuses on question-answer sequences in which the premier of Ontario, Michael Harris, attempted to resist lawyers' attempts to control and restrict his responses. In particular, on the basis of the data it is argued that the power of cross-examining lawyers doe…
Legal institutions, nonspeaking recipiency and participants' orientations
In this article, I explore the question of what constitutes a participant's orientation to gender within conversation analysis (CA), suggesting that CA's notion of participant orientation may be too narrow and restrictive to adequately capture the significance of gender as an organizing principle of institutions. The data that I analyze are drawn from legal settings, specifically a Canadian criminal trial dealing with sexual assault. Significant …
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Research on language and gender encompasses a variety of methods and focuses on many aspects of linguistic structure. This review traces the historical development of the field, explicating some of the major debates, including the need to move from a reductive focus on difference and dichotomous views of gender to more performative notions of identity. It explains how the field has come to include language, gender, and sexuality and how queer the…
Well, I saw the picture’
Cultural norms surrounding heterosexuality have been shown to influence legal and popular understandings of rape. In particular, Nicola Gavey has proposed that normative ideas about men’s aggressive, hard-to-control sexuality and women’s passive, acquiescing sexuality operate as a ‘cultural scaffold’ for rape – they provide a sense-making framework that allows rape to be understood as ‘just sex’. This paper, a case study of the 2013 Steubenville …
Intersections of race and gender in sexual assault trials
This essay traces the development of intersectionality theory within the field of language and gender in relation to research on the language of rape trials. In early work on the topic, I used Judith Butler’s notion of the ‘rigid regulatory frame’ to understand the cultural intelligibility of certain kinds of rape victims in the legal system and the unintelligibility of others. But the inequities that complainants often experience in rape trials …
Discourse, Gender and Sexual Violence
Looking back - Looking ahead
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Language in Society - 50 years
It has been a year since we took over as co-editors of Language in Society from Jenny Cheshire, and we are honoured to be able to celebrate the journal's 50th anniversary. Established in 1972 by Dell Hymes, Language in Society has aimed since its inception to be an academic platform which not only showcases research on 'all aspects of language as part of social life' (Hymes 1972:13), but also and most importantly leads 'to a reconstruction of soc…
Communities of practice, gender, and the representation of sexual assault
This article investigates the utility of Eckert & McConnell-Ginet's concept of “community of practice” for an analysis of the language used by women in a sexual assault tribunal. It is shown how the questions asked by two tribunal members (a male and a female faculty member), in a university sexual “harassment” tribunal, function to (re)frame and (re)construct the events in question as consensual sex. Although the female complainants (i.e. victim…
Referential linking and the interpretation of tense
Cohesive devices and discourse competence
This paper examines the development of cohesive discourse among second-language learners in light of native speaker discourse norms. Previous studies of cohesion in second-language acquisition have counted cohesive devices as a means of assessing the overall cohesion of texts. I argue that such studies have failed to measure cohesion accurately because they have neglected to consider restrictions on the distribution of cohesive devices in English…
Roy K. Gottfried. The Art of Joyce’s Syntax in Ulysses. Athens, Georgia
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Foreign Language Learning under Classroom Conditions
Cohesive devices and discourse competence
This paper examines the development of cohesive discourse among second-language learners in light of native speaker discourse norms. Previous studies of cohesion in second-language acquisition have counted cohesive devices as a means of assessing the overall cohesion of texts. I argue that such studies have failed to measure cohesion accurately because they have neglected to consider restrictions on the distribution of cohesive devices in English…
The Teaching of Pronunciation
Referential linking and the interpretation of tense
Point of View
Sentence-based approaches to point of view linguistic framework for cohesion referential linking and RST temporal linking and RST aspect, coherence and point of view implications
Gender-Based Language Reform and the Social Construction of Meaning
In this article we consider the implications of the social construction of meaning for the possibility of language reform. Since meanings are socially determined and since the dominant culture is sexist, it is not surprising that women's meanings are often appropriated by that culture and that gender-based language reform is not always successful. Based on an analysis of attempts at gender-based language reform in Canada and in particular at York…
Point of View
Teaching American English Pronunciation
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Feminist meanings and the (de)politicization of the lexicon
In arguing for the necessity of gender-based language reform, feminist theorists have generally assumed that language is not a neutral and transparent means of representing reality. Rather, language is assumed to codify an androcentric worldview. While sexist language clearly reflects sexist social practices, the continuing existence of such practices throws into question the possibility of successful language reform. Because linguistic meanings …
Literary Texts and the Violation of Narrative Norms
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Literary Texts and the Violation of Narrative Norms
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The Discursive Reconstruction of Sexual Consent
This paper explores the discursive means by which a defendant in a sexual assault tribunal attempts to represent or construct himself as innocent. The relative success of discursive strategies in deflecting the defendant's accountability for the sexual assault in question, I argue, is directly related to the ideological perspective that `frames' the proceedings of the tribunal. More specifically, I demonstrate how what Crawford (1995) calls a def…
Approaches to discourse
Communities of practice, gender, and the representation of sexual assault
This article investigates the utility of Eckert & McConnell-Ginet's concept of “community of practice” for an analysis of the language used by women in a sexual assault tribunal. It is shown how the questions asked by two tribunal members (a male and a female faculty member), in a university sexual “harassment” tribunal, function to (re)frame and (re)construct the events in question as consensual sex. Although the female complainants (i.e. victim…
(Re)contextualizing compaintants’ accounts of sexual assault
By comparing data from a sexual assault criminal trial and a sexual assault civil trial, this article shows how counter-hegemonic frameworks can be incorporated into institutional discourse. More specifically, I explore the ways in which feminist discourses or ideological ‘frames’ regarding women and sexual violence can be introduced into the discursive space of a trial, resulting in the contextualizing of complainants’ experiences of sexual assa…
Discourse, Gender and Sexual Violence
Legal institutions, nonspeaking recipiency and participants' orientations
In this article, I explore the question of what constitutes a participant's orientation to gender within conversation analysis (CA), suggesting that CA's notion of participant orientation may be too narrow and restrictive to adequately capture the significance of gender as an organizing principle of institutions. The data that I analyze are drawn from legal settings, specifically a Canadian criminal trial dealing with sexual assault. Significant …
Representing Rape
Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under i…
I think that's not an assumption you ought to make
This article examines data drawn from a 2001 Ontario (Canada) provincial inquiry into the deaths of seven people as a result of water contamination in a small Ontario town. The examination focuses on question-answer sequences in which the premier of Ontario, Michael Harris, attempted to resist lawyers' attempts to control and restrict his responses. In particular, on the basis of the data it is argued that the power of cross-examining lawyers doe…
Legal discourse and the cultural intelligiblity of gendered meanings1
This paper considers the methodological challenges that 'post-modern' approaches to gender (Cameron 2005) pose for the field of language and gender. If we assume that gender cannot be 'read off' the identities of speakers, but rather is a social process by which individuals come to make cultural sense, then how do we best investigate this process? AsStokoe (2005)andStokoe and Smithson (2002)have argued, it is problematic within such frameworks to…
The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
Chapter 1, written by the volume's editors, Susan Ehrlich and Alice Freed, provides an overview of the fourteen chapters of this volume and makes its own contribution to the study of questioning in institutional discourse. Ehrlich and Freed discuss various descriptions of questions, provide a working definition of questions that combines functional and sequential dimensions, and review earlier studies of questions in institutional discourse. The …
Why do you ask
1. The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction 2. The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony 3. Questioning in Medicine 4. Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline 5. Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction 6. Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations 7. Pursuing Views…
The Strategic Marginalization of Working Class Masculinity in a Batterers’ Treatment Programme
In this paper, we consider how ideologies about heterosexual working class masculinity play a symbolic role for middle-class, educated men in the context of a batterers’ treatment programme. We suggest that the middle class, educated men who are the focus of this paper create identities for themselves by a process of differentiation, in particular, by distancing themselves from the majority of the men in the batterers’ group who supposedly embody…
Text trajectories, legal discourse and gendered inequalities
Following Blommaert (2005), this paper examines what he calls a ‘forgotten’ context within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) – that of text trajectories. For Blommaert, a limitation of both CDA and CA is their focus on “the unique, one-time” instance of a given text and, by extension, the (limited) context associated with such an instance of text. Such a focus, according to Blommaert, ignores a salient feature of co…
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