Facts, norms and dispositions: practical uses of the modal verb would in police interrogations

By D. Edwards. 2006

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/76a9aa061a3198d99fc2eb31b0bfe18ec1e4a07b

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Citations in the corpus

• Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis (2012, background): “G therefore claims, via the modal verb ‘couldn’t’, a disposition not to be able to enact such a strategy (see Edwards, 2006).”
• Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes (2009, background): “There is a large body of work that expands upon Sacks’s (1992) groundbreaking account of membership categorization (e.”
• How to get a grip on identities-in-interaction. (What) Does "Positioning" offer more than "Membership Categorization"? Evidence from a mock story (2013, background): “Identity/biographical import: Is the action attributed to situational circum stance or is it framed as giving evidence of and being motivated by a stable, overarching identity of the actor, thus suggesting a dispositional interpreta tion (cf. Edwards, 2006)?”