Chris Heffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Heffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Heffer |
| SIGNATURE | HEFFER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembering Dr Janet Cotterill (1968–2022)
It is with great sadness, but many memories, that we write to commemorate the life and work of our colleague Dr Janet Cotterill. Her vigour and drive were illustrated by her significant achievements in her inspirational career, since Janet
Narrative navigation
Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the functional embedding of narrative within sociocultural practices (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008) and to the role narrative plays in the construction of identity (Bamberg, 2011). Narrative practices, though, are still equated with narrating activities, with “a form of action, of performance” (Blommaert, 2006) at a given moment in discursive time. This article argues that when narrative is …
Definition in Theory and Practice
Sanford Schane, Language and the LawLondon
Beyond 'reasonable doubt'
If juries are to bring in just verdicts in criminal trials, they need to understand the criminal standard of proof – beyond reasonable doubt – and apply it to the evidence they have heard in court. Yet courts have been notoriously ineffective in communicating that standard to lay jurors. This paper locates the problem not so much in specific wordings as in the entire paradigm of ‘instruction as legal text’ under which courts have tended to operat…
Making a Case
This thesis is an ethnographic account of the literacy-related activities, practices and material artefacts generated by and contained within the Prison Community. It describes the inter-relation of literacies with social and institutional identities and looks at the way reading and writing creates and sustains prisoners’ networks of communication inside and outside contemporary British prisons. It challenges not only societally established insti…
Narrative navigation
Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the functional embedding of narrative within sociocultural practices (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008) and to the role narrative plays in the construction of identity (Bamberg, 2011). Narrative practices, though, are still equated with narrating activities, with “a form of action, of performance” (Blommaert, 2006) at a given moment in discursive time. This article argues that when narrative is …
Making a Case
This thesis is an ethnographic account of the literacy-related activities, practices and material artefacts generated by and contained within the Prison Community. It describes the inter-relation of literacies with social and institutional identities and looks at the way reading and writing creates and sustains prisoners’ networks of communication inside and outside contemporary British prisons. It challenges not only societally established insti…
Beyond 'reasonable doubt'
If juries are to bring in just verdicts in criminal trials, they need to understand the criminal standard of proof – beyond reasonable doubt – and apply it to the evidence they have heard in court. Yet courts have been notoriously ineffective in communicating that standard to lay jurors. This paper locates the problem not so much in specific wordings as in the entire paradigm of ‘instruction as legal text’ under which courts have tended to operat…
Sanford Schane, Language and the LawLondon
Definition in Theory and Practice
Narrative navigation
Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the functional embedding of narrative within sociocultural practices (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008) and to the role narrative plays in the construction of identity (Bamberg, 2011). Narrative practices, though, are still equated with narrating activities, with “a form of action, of performance” (Blommaert, 2006) at a given moment in discursive time. This article argues that when narrative is …
Remembering Dr Janet Cotterill (1968–2022)
It is with great sadness, but many memories, that we write to commemorate the life and work of our colleague Dr Janet Cotterill. Her vigour and drive were illustrated by her significant achievements in her inspirational career, since Janet
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Jury (2 works) · Jury trial (2 works)