Description
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing both updated overviews from leading figures in the field and exciting new contributions from the next generation of forensic linguists.
The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It comprises 43 chapters, including entirely new contributions from many international experts, in the areas of Aboriginal claimants, appraisal and stance, author identities online, biased language in capital trials, corpus approaches, false confessions, forensic phonetics, forensic transcription, the historical courtroom, legal interpretation, multilingual law, police crisis negotiation, speaker profiling, and trolling. The chapters include a wealth of examples and case studies so the reader can see forensic linguist
Trade Review
'An exciting new edition of the original ground-breaking forensic linguistics handbook, featuring more than 20 new authors, joining almost 30 of the original authors. The new and updated chapters bring additional depth and breadth, and greater global diversity to this valuable resource. A must-read for scholars, researchers and practitioners in the rapidly developing field of language and the law.'
Diana Eades, University of New England, Australia
From reviews of the first edition:
'... the editors have done a masterful job in providing the needed broad coverage in forensic linguistics, and helped the reader to draw connections and to cross-reference between the variety of papers presented.' - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
List of conventions used
List of contributors and affiliations
Notes on editors and contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Section I The language of the law and the legal process
1.1 Legal language and legal meaning
2 Legal talk
3 Legal writing: complexity
4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis
5 Creating multilingual law
6 Legal interpretation
1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations
7 Miranda rights
8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews
9 False confessors
10 Police interviews in the judicial process
11 Assuming identities online
1.3 Language in the courtroom
12 Order in court
13 Narrative in the trial
14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom
15 Capitally speaking: language and bias in capital trials
16 Multimodality in legal interaction
1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process
17 Instructions to jurors
18 Vulnerable witnesses
19 Rape victims
20 Defendants’ allocutions at sentencing
21 Aboriginal claimants
Section II The linguist as expert in the legal process
2.1 Expert and process
22 The forensic linguist
23 Trademark linguistics
24 Speaker profiling and forensic voice comparison
25 Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition
26 Forensic transcription
27 Consumer product warnings
28 Terrorism and forensic linguistics
2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts
29 Non-native speakers in detention
30 Court interpreting
31 Interpreting outside the courtroom
2.3 Authorship and opinion
32 Experts and opinions
33 Forensic stylistics
34 Text messaging forensics
35 Plagiarism
36 Computational forensic linguistics
Section III New directions
37 Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics
38 Corpora and legal interpretation
39 Police crisis negotiation
40 Investigative linguistics
41 'Prison has been a proper punishment'
42 Pranksters, provocateurs, propagandists
43 Concluding remarks
Index
