In telling of the offence, he used a form of reporting the victims’ speech in a way that she consented to have sex with him and put an emphasis on that he has no intention of hurting her when the incident occurs. This discourse strategy was backed by the rape myth knowledge that women exaggerate claims of rape after the event. Moreover, the use of reported speech functions to …show more content…
Based on discourse analysis of discursive practices and racial differences around the construct of ‘rape’, this study examines the features of the pragmatic patterns in conducted interviews about rape in female students ‘dialogue and how particular rape situations in given vignettes are depicted. Therefore, the study aims to provide a better understanding of how rape discourse is construed in social interactions in a form of women’s everyday talk by identifying the patterns of discursive and resources and practices which are socially and culturally