Bronwen Innes
Biographic Data
| ID | 750367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwen Innes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Innes |
| SIGNATURE | INNES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Did he understand his rights? Assessing the comprehensibility of police cautions in New Zealand
The authors’ experience in conducting English language proficiency tests for second language speakers of English facing police charges has shown that some have limited understanding of their legal rights. The research study reported here comments on the complexity of the rights information presented by police to a range of participants. It investigates comprehension of that information by performing listening and reading comprehension tests with …
R v David Bain – a Unique Case in New Zealand Legal and Linguistic History
In 2009 in New Zealand, an extraordinary case occupied the attention of the New Zealand public: the retrial of David Bain, who had been convicted on the charge of murdering his family in 1994. This article outlines the circumstances which led to the retrial, and the part which linguistics played in that. When Bain discovered his family had been killed, he telephoned the emergency services. Linguistics became involved when a dispute arose as to th…
Well, that's why I asked the question sir
This article discusses the use ofwellas a discourse marker in some New Zealand courtrooms. Whilewellhas been discussed by many in the past, the data have been selected mainly from small, friendly encounters of various kinds, including sociolinguistic interviews. The study reported on here looks at a very different situation that necessarily involves a range of relationships and includes both cooperative and adversarial activities. It confirms tha…
Everything Happened So Quickly?” HRT Intonation in New Zealand Courtrooms
High rising terminal intonation (HRT) has been the focus of considerable research in New Zealand since the mid-1980s, much of which is based on interviews. In this article, I build on that work by examining the role of HRTs in naturally occurring discourse in courtrooms, where a number of different role relations are represented. The courtroom provides an ideal testing ground for examining the relationship between HRTs and the powerless language …
Speaking up in Court
Law courts purport to be seats of justice, yet there is constant debate about the evenhandedness of that justice and ordinary people’s access to it. This thesis reports on a study of seven criminal hearings in the District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. The study focussed on repair (as defined in conversation analysis) and various phenomena which have been identified previously as characteristic of “powerless language” (that is, the speech used …
Well, that's why I asked the question sir
This article discusses the use ofwellas a discourse marker in some New Zealand courtrooms. Whilewellhas been discussed by many in the past, the data have been selected mainly from small, friendly encounters of various kinds, including sociolinguistic interviews. The study reported on here looks at a very different situation that necessarily involves a range of relationships and includes both cooperative and adversarial activities. It confirms tha…
Everything Happened So Quickly?” HRT Intonation in New Zealand Courtrooms
High rising terminal intonation (HRT) has been the focus of considerable research in New Zealand since the mid-1980s, much of which is based on interviews. In this article, I build on that work by examining the role of HRTs in naturally occurring discourse in courtrooms, where a number of different role relations are represented. The courtroom provides an ideal testing ground for examining the relationship between HRTs and the powerless language …
Speaking up in Court
Law courts purport to be seats of justice, yet there is constant debate about the evenhandedness of that justice and ordinary people’s access to it. This thesis reports on a study of seven criminal hearings in the District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. The study focussed on repair (as defined in conversation analysis) and various phenomena which have been identified previously as characteristic of “powerless language” (that is, the speech used …
Everything Happened So Quickly?” HRT Intonation in New Zealand Courtrooms
High rising terminal intonation (HRT) has been the focus of considerable research in New Zealand since the mid-1980s, much of which is based on interviews. In this article, I build on that work by examining the role of HRTs in naturally occurring discourse in courtrooms, where a number of different role relations are represented. The courtroom provides an ideal testing ground for examining the relationship between HRTs and the powerless language …
Well, that's why I asked the question sir
This article discusses the use ofwellas a discourse marker in some New Zealand courtrooms. Whilewellhas been discussed by many in the past, the data have been selected mainly from small, friendly encounters of various kinds, including sociolinguistic interviews. The study reported on here looks at a very different situation that necessarily involves a range of relationships and includes both cooperative and adversarial activities. It confirms tha…
R v David Bain – a Unique Case in New Zealand Legal and Linguistic History
In 2009 in New Zealand, an extraordinary case occupied the attention of the New Zealand public: the retrial of David Bain, who had been convicted on the charge of murdering his family in 1994. This article outlines the circumstances which led to the retrial, and the part which linguistics played in that. When Bain discovered his family had been killed, he telephoned the emergency services. Linguistics became involved when a dispute arose as to th…
Did he understand his rights? Assessing the comprehensibility of police cautions in New Zealand
The authors’ experience in conducting English language proficiency tests for second language speakers of English facing police charges has shown that some have limited understanding of their legal rights. The research study reported here comments on the complexity of the rights information presented by police to a range of participants. It investigates comprehension of that information by performing listening and reading comprehension tests with …
Law (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)