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(1997) Human Studies 20 (1).
Built space and the interactional framing of experience during a murder interrogation
Curtis D. Lebaron , Jürgen Streeck
pp. 1-25
Human interaction and communication involve space in multiple ways. This paper examines the spatial and interactional order of a covertly video-taped police interrogation. When the participants enter the interrogation room and become engaged in the interrogation process, the room itself is a constraint and a resource for interaction. While interacting within a built environment, the participants appropriate their material surroundings in ways that constitute a spatial order and make possible certain arguments. This paper examines how the physical structure of the interrogation room is differentially appropriated, used, and filled in by the participants'; territorial and postural manoeuvers over the course of their interaction; and how the spatial structures thus created by the bodily appropriation of the physical locale are subsequently formulated by talk and thereby used as a metaphorical resource to frame the participants' situated experience. Through this embedded process, the interrogators move the suspect toward confession.
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Lebaron, C. D. , Streeck, J. (1997). Built space and the interactional framing of experience during a murder interrogation. Human Studies 20 (1), pp. 1-25.
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