Shonna L Trinch
Biographic Data
| ID | 745996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shonna L Trinch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shonna L |
| FAMILY NAME | Trinch |
| SIGNATURE | TRINCH S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret
This article examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator. The data consist of 47 reviews, ranging from professional reviewers at major newspapers to ‘citizen reviewers’ found on commercial bookstores’ websites …
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be ‘changing their stories,’ in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse:…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be ‘changing their stories,’ in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse:…
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret
This article examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator. The data consist of 47 reviews, ranging from professional reviewers at major newspapers to ‘citizen reviewers’ found on commercial bookstores’ websites …
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works)