Jennifer Andrus
Biographic Data
| ID | 659601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Andrus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrus |
| SIGNATURE | ANDRUS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7001-8391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Overview and Historical Influences
Emergent intertextual networks: Intertextuality in storytelling about intimate partner violence and the revisioning of social norms
Intertextuality is the process of reiterating prior text or talk in a new context, taking up, forwarding, imitating, and updating prior discourse and its meaning potential in a new interaction. This process of repetition extends beyond verbatim repetition to includes social and institutional discourses. In this paper, I propose that intertextuality weaves together the actually produced text and talk of individual speakers with larger social and i…
We get that: Narrative indexicality and the construction of frustration in police stories about domestic violence victim/survivors
This article considers a particular set of cultural and ideological discourses—police discourse about domestic violence (DV) victim/survivors—in a study about indexicality. Via the processes of indexicality, victim/survivors are consistently described and constructed as frustrations for police officers and police work. We pinpoint two sociosemantic structures that index frustration—the use of the word frustration and statements that initially sho…
My word against his: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships
Indexicality and ideology in narratives about intimate partner violence
Theories of indexicality explain the ways in which linguistic forms are linked to social forms. As such, indexicality deals in part with ideology and cultural discourses. This article demonstrates the ways in which intimate partner violence (IPV), seen as an indexical, discursive formation, facilitates the material and social manifestations and ramifications of IPV. I argue for an expansion of the concept “indexical field” to account not only for…
Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
Rhetorical discourse analysis (RDA) brings together methods and theories from strands of discourse analysis (DA), classical rhetoric, and rhetorical analysis. As this entry shows, rhetoric and DA share a common object, discourse, and some of the same concerns and concepts, such as interaction, context, style, and effect. The overlapping concerns create spaces where theories and methods can be brought together to add depth and nuance to analysis. …
Entextualizing and contextualizing the status quo in domestic violence narratives
Victim/survivors of domestic violence are asked to tell their stories many times, in different contexts, and for different audiences. These stories are contextualized for the new context and audience at the same time that they become texts – entextualization – in that context. This article argues that narrative is produced via the co-processes of entextualization and contextualization ( Silverstein & Urban, 1996 ). The co-processes of entextualiz…
Identity, self and other: The emergence of police and victim/survivor identities in domestic violence narratives
This article analyzes narratives about encounters between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors in the context of domestic violence calls. Narratives are sites in which individuals create relationships between themselves and others, oriented around a set of unfolding events. Narrative is a motivated, engaged retelling of prior or anticipated events produced in interaction with others, in a particular context stocked with constrai…
Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Language ideologies that are circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence create the potential to speak for, appropriate, and ignore the speech of women who have been victims of domestic violence. This research shows the ways in which a language ideology circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence draws on and creates indexical links to social discourses, affecting speakers whose utterances are used as evidence in legal contexts. The boo…
Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
Rhetorical discourse analysis (RDA) brings together methods and theories from strands of discourse analysis (DA), classical rhetoric, and rhetorical analysis.
Language ideology, fractal recursivity, and discursive agency in the legal construction of linguistic evidence
This article analyzes the language ideology (Silverstein 1979; Woolard & Schieffelin 1994) circulated in Section 8 of the United States Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), focusing on the consequences to discursive agency when this language ideology is used to appropriate an utterance for use as evidence. Section 8 of the FRE, or the hearsay rule, bars the testimonial, in-court repetition of second-hand statements. The excited utterance exception to…
Beyond texts in context: Recontextualization and the co-production of texts and contexts in the legal discourse, excited utterance exception to hearsay
The excited utterance exception to hearsay from the US Federal Rules of Evidence (US Courts, 2006: Section 8) is a special kind of reported speech — the repetition of an utterance that reports an event, made prior to the courtroom interaction, in response to exciting circumstances, to a passive third party. This reported speech and the rules that govern it provide insight into the discursive relationship between text and context. This article use…
The development of an artefactual language ideology: Utterance, event, and agency in the metadiscourse of the excited utterance exception to hearsay
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
This article explores the sociolinguistic history of a U.S. city. On the basis of historical research, ethnography, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic interviews, the authors describe how a set of linguistic features that were once not noticed at all, then used and heard primarily as markers of socioeconomic class, have come to be linked increasingly to place and “enregistered” as a dialect called “Pittsburghese.” To explain how this has com…
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
This article explores the sociolinguistic history of a U.S. city. On the basis of historical research, ethnography, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic interviews, the authors describe how a set of linguistic features that were once not noticed at all, then used and heard primarily as markers of socioeconomic class, have come to be linked increasingly to place and “enregistered” as a dialect called “Pittsburghese.” To explain how this has com…
Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Language ideologies that are circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence create the potential to speak for, appropriate, and ignore the speech of women who have been victims of domestic violence. This research shows the ways in which a language ideology circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence draws on and creates indexical links to social discourses, affecting speakers whose utterances are used as evidence in legal contexts. The boo…
Language ideology, fractal recursivity, and discursive agency in the legal construction of linguistic evidence
This article analyzes the language ideology (Silverstein 1979; Woolard & Schieffelin 1994) circulated in Section 8 of the United States Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), focusing on the consequences to discursive agency when this language ideology is used to appropriate an utterance for use as evidence. Section 8 of the FRE, or the hearsay rule, bars the testimonial, in-court repetition of second-hand statements. The excited utterance exception to…
Beyond texts in context: Recontextualization and the co-production of texts and contexts in the legal discourse, excited utterance exception to hearsay
The excited utterance exception to hearsay from the US Federal Rules of Evidence (US Courts, 2006: Section 8) is a special kind of reported speech — the repetition of an utterance that reports an event, made prior to the courtroom interaction, in response to exciting circumstances, to a passive third party. This reported speech and the rules that govern it provide insight into the discursive relationship between text and context. This article use…
The development of an artefactual language ideology: Utterance, event, and agency in the metadiscourse of the excited utterance exception to hearsay
Entextualizing and contextualizing the status quo in domestic violence narratives
Victim/survivors of domestic violence are asked to tell their stories many times, in different contexts, and for different audiences. These stories are contextualized for the new context and audience at the same time that they become texts – entextualization – in that context. This article argues that narrative is produced via the co-processes of entextualization and contextualization ( Silverstein & Urban, 1996 ). The co-processes of entextualiz…
Identity, self and other: The emergence of police and victim/survivor identities in domestic violence narratives
This article analyzes narratives about encounters between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors in the context of domestic violence calls. Narratives are sites in which individuals create relationships between themselves and others, oriented around a set of unfolding events. Narrative is a motivated, engaged retelling of prior or anticipated events produced in interaction with others, in a particular context stocked with constrai…
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
This article explores the sociolinguistic history of a U.S. city. On the basis of historical research, ethnography, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic interviews, the authors describe how a set of linguistic features that were once not noticed at all, then used and heard primarily as markers of socioeconomic class, have come to be linked increasingly to place and “enregistered” as a dialect called “Pittsburghese.” To explain how this has com…
The development of an artefactual language ideology: Utterance, event, and agency in the metadiscourse of the excited utterance exception to hearsay
Beyond texts in context: Recontextualization and the co-production of texts and contexts in the legal discourse, excited utterance exception to hearsay
The excited utterance exception to hearsay from the US Federal Rules of Evidence (US Courts, 2006: Section 8) is a special kind of reported speech — the repetition of an utterance that reports an event, made prior to the courtroom interaction, in response to exciting circumstances, to a passive third party. This reported speech and the rules that govern it provide insight into the discursive relationship between text and context. This article use…
Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
Rhetorical discourse analysis (RDA) brings together methods and theories from strands of discourse analysis (DA), classical rhetoric, and rhetorical analysis.
Language ideology, fractal recursivity, and discursive agency in the legal construction of linguistic evidence
This article analyzes the language ideology (Silverstein 1979; Woolard & Schieffelin 1994) circulated in Section 8 of the United States Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), focusing on the consequences to discursive agency when this language ideology is used to appropriate an utterance for use as evidence. Section 8 of the FRE, or the hearsay rule, bars the testimonial, in-court repetition of second-hand statements. The excited utterance exception to…
Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Language ideologies that are circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence create the potential to speak for, appropriate, and ignore the speech of women who have been victims of domestic violence. This research shows the ways in which a language ideology circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence draws on and creates indexical links to social discourses, affecting speakers whose utterances are used as evidence in legal contexts. The boo…
Identity, self and other: The emergence of police and victim/survivor identities in domestic violence narratives
This article analyzes narratives about encounters between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors in the context of domestic violence calls. Narratives are sites in which individuals create relationships between themselves and others, oriented around a set of unfolding events. Narrative is a motivated, engaged retelling of prior or anticipated events produced in interaction with others, in a particular context stocked with constrai…
Entextualizing and contextualizing the status quo in domestic violence narratives
Victim/survivors of domestic violence are asked to tell their stories many times, in different contexts, and for different audiences. These stories are contextualized for the new context and audience at the same time that they become texts – entextualization – in that context. This article argues that narrative is produced via the co-processes of entextualization and contextualization ( Silverstein & Urban, 1996 ). The co-processes of entextualiz…
Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
Rhetorical discourse analysis (RDA) brings together methods and theories from strands of discourse analysis (DA), classical rhetoric, and rhetorical analysis. As this entry shows, rhetoric and DA share a common object, discourse, and some of the same concerns and concepts, such as interaction, context, style, and effect. The overlapping concerns create spaces where theories and methods can be brought together to add depth and nuance to analysis. …
Indexicality and ideology in narratives about intimate partner violence
Theories of indexicality explain the ways in which linguistic forms are linked to social forms. As such, indexicality deals in part with ideology and cultural discourses. This article demonstrates the ways in which intimate partner violence (IPV), seen as an indexical, discursive formation, facilitates the material and social manifestations and ramifications of IPV. I argue for an expansion of the concept “indexical field” to account not only for…
We get that: Narrative indexicality and the construction of frustration in police stories about domestic violence victim/survivors
This article considers a particular set of cultural and ideological discourses—police discourse about domestic violence (DV) victim/survivors—in a study about indexicality. Via the processes of indexicality, victim/survivors are consistently described and constructed as frustrations for police officers and police work. We pinpoint two sociosemantic structures that index frustration—the use of the word frustration and statements that initially sho…
My word against his: Micro and macro analysis of stories about violence in intimate partner relationships
Emergent intertextual networks: Intertextuality in storytelling about intimate partner violence and the revisioning of social norms
Intertextuality is the process of reiterating prior text or talk in a new context, taking up, forwarding, imitating, and updating prior discourse and its meaning potential in a new interaction. This process of repetition extends beyond verbatim repetition to includes social and institutional discourses. In this paper, I propose that intertextuality weaves together the actually produced text and talk of individual speakers with larger social and i…
Overview and Historical Influences
Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)