Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics

Editors

John Gibbons | University of Western Sydney

M. Teresa Turell | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new research questions in the field. Perhaps the most striking feature of this collection is its range, strikingly illustrating the multi-dimensionality of Forensic Linguistics. All of the contributions share a preoccupation with the painstaking linguistic work involved, using and interpreting data in a restrained and reasoned way.

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] 2008. vi, 316 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.5

Table of Contents

Introduction

John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell | pp. 1–4

Part I. The language of the law

The nature of legal language

Peter Tiersma | pp. 7–25

Language education for law professionals

Jill Northcott | pp. 27–46

The language and communication of jury instruction

Chris Heffer | pp. 47–65

Policespeak

Phil Hall | pp. 67–94

Legal translation

Enrique Alcaraz Varó | pp. 95–111

Part II. The language of the court

Questioning in common law criminal courts

John Gibbons | pp. 115–130

Bilingual courtrooms: In the interests of justice?

Richard Powell | pp. 131–159

The silent witness: Pragmatic and literal interpretations

Dennis Kurzon | pp. 161–178

Language and disadvantage before the law

Diana Eades | pp. 179–195

Interpreting for the minority

Ester S.M. Leung | pp. 197–211

Part III. Forensic linguistic evidence

Approaching questions in forensic authorship analysis

Tim Grant | pp. 215–229

Trademarks and other proprietary terms

Ronald R. Butters | pp. 231–247

Deception and fraud

William Eggington | pp. 249–264

Plagiarism

M. Teresa Turell | pp. 265–299

Contributors | pp. 301–306

Language index | p. 307

Subject index | pp. 309–316

“This is an interesting and timely volume as the number of students of Forensic Linguistics is rapidly expanding and there is a shortage of easily accessible supplementary readings. The spread of topic, language of the examples and country of origin of the authors all add to the attractiveness of the volume.”

Professor Malcolm Coulthard, Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University

“The overall impression is that the editors of this volume have brought together a well-balanced selection of papers, ranging across a variety of genres and contexts of production. Furthermore, the professional expertise displayed by some of the contributors adds further nuance to the investigation of the subject. The volume provides valuable insights into this emerging discipline and it is clearly of interest for all practitioners in the field, such as teachers, students and professionals.”

Patrizia Anesa, University of Verona, in Hermes 43

“The overall impression is that the editors of this volume have brought together a well-balanced section of papers, ranging across a variety of genres and contexts of production. Furthermore, the professional expertise displayed by some of the contributors adds further nuance to the investigation of the subject. The volume provides valuable insights into this emerging discipline and it is clearly of interest for all practitioners in the field, such as teachers, students and professionals.”

Patrizia Anesa, in Hermes 43: 295-298

“The 'dimensions' of the title of this book, then, are amply met. The chapters are substantially wider that the scope of the earlier textbooks on forensic linguistics, and re-anchor forensic linguistics in a new set of parameters, where linguistics, as the scientific study of language, is brought to bear in fresh ways on the work of language in the law.”

Roland Sussex, in SQL Review of Books 50: 60-62, 2011

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