The Speaking Individual: The Effects of Institutional Discourses and Text Production on Discursive Agency

• In Event: Advances in Communication Theory

Abstract

In this paper, I extend on Miller’s recent discussion of the attribution of agency. I argue that the attribution model doesn’t adequately account for the role played by after-the-fact discourses used to evaluate discursive interaction, for example, when an utterance is evaluated in a legal setting. I use the excited utterance exception to hearsay from American evidence law to argue that agency is produced as a feature of entextualization, or practices of text production.

Author

• Jennifer Andrus, Carnegie Mellon Univ