ABSTRACT
The 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 linguistics applied and in action.
Edited and authored by the world’s leading academics and practitioners, The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics is a vital resource for advanced students, researchers and scholars, and will also be of interest to legal, law enforcement and security professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|335 pages
The language of the law and the legal process
part 1.1|82 pages
Legal language and legal meaning
chapter 2|19 pages
Legal talk
chapter 4|16 pages
Legal writing: attitude and emphasis
chapter 5|15 pages
Creating multilingual law
chapter 6|14 pages
Legal interpretation
part 1.2|81 pages
Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations
chapter 7|17 pages
Miranda rights
chapter 8|15 pages
Witnesses and suspects in interviews
part 1.3|90 pages
Language in the courtroom
chapter 14|17 pages
Advances in studies of the historical courtroom
part 1.4|79 pages
Lay participants in the judicial process
chapter 18|16 pages
Vulnerable witnesses
chapter 21|15 pages
Aboriginal claimants
part Section II|263 pages
The linguist as expert in the legal process
part 2.1|116 pages
Expert and process
chapter 25|16 pages
Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition
chapter 26|16 pages
Forensic transcription
part 2.2|57 pages
Multilingualism in legal contexts
chapter 29|20 pages
Non-native speakers in detention
chapter 30|17 pages
Court interpreting
chapter 31|19 pages
Interpreting outside the courtroom
part 2.3|87 pages
Authorship and opinion
part Section III|109 pages
New directions