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"This book is about narratives about interactions between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors. Using theories of indexicality, identity, and narrative, I show how police officers conceive of victim/survivors and vice versa, as those(mis)conceptions are represented in narrative. I also analyze the ways in which identity emerges in and is performed via narrative constructions of domestic violence and encounters between police and victim/survivors. I argue that Identity emerges in an "indexical field" (Eckert) made up of different elements, each of which mean differently depending on the identity emerging in the field and the person telling the story. Thus, what domestic violence means and even what it looks like is different for victim/survivors than it is for police officers. Identity also emerges in storytelling when the storyteller constructs identities for characters in the story world that are then positioned against by the storyteller in the process of telling the story. Through the indexical and identity analysis of narrative, one issue that I address is the dismissal of emotional violence from the indexical field of domestic violence in police discourse. I argue that we need more resources to account for issues of emotional abuse in police responses to domestic violence"--

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 book examines linguistic strategies and analyzes assumptions about language in the legal text and talk used to evaluate spoken evidence.

Abstract
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
entextualization/contextualization in domestic violence narratives about staying and leaving violent relationships produce stories
that comport with the status quo, as it is envisioned in the stories of the victim/survivors. Using staying/leaving stories of
domestic violence victim/survivors, I show that entextualizations/contextualizations are (1) socioculturally saturated processes
and (2) rhetorical arguments. I argue that narratives entextualize/contextualize events of domestic violence in ways that involve
and comply with the status quo. Ultimately, these processes create discursive resources that reinforce domestic violence.