All Outputs (2)

“Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents (2023)
Journal Article
Steel, K. (2024). “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 37(2), 547-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10050-x

The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of t... Read More about “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents.

The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse (2022)
Book Chapter
Aldridge, M., & Steel, K. (2022). The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse. In I. Šeškauskienė (Ed.), Metaphor in Legal Discourse (224-241). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from... Read More about The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse.