Papilota-Diaz 65 Extract 1 illustrates the phrasal self-repetition of “the accused suddenly appeared in front of you” by the cross-examining defense lawyer. It is a phrasal repetition because actual bits of texts are remembered, and then retrieved to be reshaped to new contexts. This phrase occurred six (6) times in this selected chunk of questionanswer between the defense lawyer (DL) and the rape complainant (NM) during the cross examination. The primary source of the defense lawyer’s questions comes from NM’s testimony during the direct examination with the prosecution lawyer (PL). 2 C4-TSN3: 7 PL: Please inform the Court what was that unusual incident about? NM: I was walking towards our home when he suddenly came in front of me. Phrasal repetitions “the accused suddenly appeared in front of you” in Extract 1 are used as DL’s discourse strategy to recontextualize information “he suddenly came in front of me” first told by NM in the direct examination as shown in Extract 2. This glossing or developing the gist of a witness’s earlier statements is called selective reformulation (Garfinkel and Sacks 1970). DL, however, reformulates and recycles “the accused suddenly appeared in front of you” several times in Extract 1, and these repetitions refer to two varying events: (1) the accused (RM) appearing in front of the witness at the foot walk when the latter was going home; and, (2) RM’s appearing in front of the witness when she regained consciousness. Obviously, these two events transpire in different manners and at different periods of time. However, an improbable witness may confuse the two events especially with the lawyer’s repetitions of the phrase and projection of information just like in DL’s questioning. In fact, DL attempts to mislead NM by recycling the same phrase, so she or the judge may think that RM just stood in front of her when she regained consciousness (i.e., while in actuality RM was doing a “pumping” motion, C4-TSN4: 15), and this attempt may eventually lead to the claim that RM did not rape her. With the use of the repeated phrases, DL wants NM to accept