Should police negotiators ask to "talk" or "speak" to persons in crisis? Word selection and overcoming resistance to dialogue proposals

This paper explores whether and how word selection makes some proposals easier to resist than others. Fourteen cases (31 hours) of UK-based police crisis negotiation were analysed exploring (i) how negotiators use the verbs talk or speak when proposing ‘dialogue’, and (ii) to what extent the strengt...

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Main Authors: Rein Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe
Format: Default Article
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/10318847.v1
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