The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 13
Conventions used......Page 16
List of contributors and affiliations......Page 18
Notes on editors and contributors......Page 21
Acknowledgements......Page 28
1 Introduction: Current debates in forensic linguistics......Page 30
Section I: The language of the law and the legal process......Page 46
1.1 Legal language......Page 48
2 Legal talk: Socio-pragmatic aspects of legal talk: police interviews and trial discourse......Page 50
3 Legal writing: specificity Specification in legislative writing: accessibility, transparency, power and control......Page 66
4 Legal writing: complexity: Complex documents/average and not-so-average readers......Page 80
5 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis: Corpus linguistic approaches to ‘legal language’: adverbial expression of attitude and emphasis in Supreme Court opinions......Page 94
6 Legal translation: Translating legal language......Page 107
1.2 Participants in police investigations, interviews and interrogation......Page 122
7 Citizens’ emergency calls: Requesting assistance in calls to the police......Page 124
8 Miranda rights: Curtailing coercion in police interrogation: the failed promise of Miranda v. Arizona......Page 140
9 Witnesses and suspects in interviews: Collecting oral evidence: the police, the public and the written word......Page 155
10 Sexual offences: Negotiating paedophilia in the investigative interview: the construction of sexual offences against children......Page 168
11 Lawyers in interviews: ‘I advise you not to answer that question’: conversation analysis, legal interaction and the analysis of lawyers’ turns in police interrogations of suspects......Page 184
12 Police interviews in the judicial process: Police interviews as evidence......Page 198
1.3 Courtroom genres......Page 212
13 The historical courtroom: A diachronic investigation of English courtroom practice......Page 214
14 Narrative in the trial: Constructing crime stories in court......Page 228
15 Prosecution and defense closing speeches: The creation of contrastive closing arguments......Page 247
16 Sentencing convicted murderers: Convicted murderers’ allocutions or leniency pleas at sentencing hearings......Page 260
1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process......Page 278
17 Instructions to jurors: Redrafting California’s jury instructions......Page 280
18 Rape victims: The discourse of rape trials......Page 294
19 Youth and gangs: Sociolinguistic issues in gang-related prosecutions: homies, hearsay and expert standards......Page 310
20 Vulnerable witnesses: Vulnerable witnesses in the Criminal Justice System......Page 325
21 False confessors: A jihadi heart and mind? Strategic repackaging of a possibly false confession in an anti-terrorism trial in California......Page 344
22 Representing oneself: Cross-examination questioning: lay people as cross-examiners......Page 362
Section II: The linguist as expert in legal processes......Page 376
2.1 Expert and process......Page 378
23 Trademark linguistics: Trademarks: Language that one owns......Page 380
24 Consumer product warnings: Composition, identification, and assessment of adequacy......Page 394
25 The forensic phonetician: Forensic speaker identification by experts......Page 407
26 The forensic linguist: The expert linguist meets the adversarial system......Page 424
2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts......Page 438
27 Nationality claims: Language analysis and asylum cases......Page 440
28 Non-native speakers in detention: Assessing non-native speaking detainees’ English language proficiency......Page 452
29 Court interpreting: The need to raise the bar: Court interpreters as specialized experts......Page 469
30 Interpreting outside the courtroom: ‘A shattered mirror?’ Interpreting in legal contexts outside the courtroom......Page 484
2.3 Authorship and opinion......Page 500
31 Experts and opinions: In my opinion......Page 502
32 Forensic stylistics: Theory and practice of forensic stylistics......Page 516
33 Text messaging forensics: Txt 4n6: Idiolect free authorship analysis?......Page 537
34 Plagiarism: Four forensic linguists’ responses to suspected plagiarism......Page 552
Section III: New debates and new directions......Page 568
35 Multimodality and forensic linguistics: Multimodal aspects of victim’s narrative in direct examination......Page 570
36 Terrorism and forensic linguistics: Linguistics and terrorism cases......Page 587
37 Computational forensic linguistics: Searching for similarity in large specialised corpora......Page 605
38 The future for forensic linguists in the courtroom: Cross-cultural communication......Page 620
39 Concluding remarks: Future directions in forensic linguistics......Page 631
References......Page 644
Index......Page 690