Dr John Olsson (Wales Bangor University), June Luchjenbroers

Forensic Linguistics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its third edition, this practical introduction to forensic linguistics is required reading for students of language and the law. It includes: new chapters on identifying forensic texts and important interactional aspects of the language used in legal contexts an additional chapter on forensic phonetics by Harry Hollien, a world renowned forensic phonetician an appendix of forensic texts for student study, and even more exercises and suggestions for further reading a companion website with a repository of statements, notes and examples referred to throughout the text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781441170767
• ISBN-10: 1441170766
• Artikelnr.: 39127910

Autorenporträt

John Olsson was a lecturer in Forensic Linguistics in both the School of Linguistics and the School of Law at Bangor University, Wales, and was head of the Forensic Linguistics Institute. Additionally, he taught forensic linguistics online. June Luchjenbroers is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Language as Forensic Evidence 1. The road to
authorship 2. The author constructed 3. Time, variation and genre 4. Range
of variation 5. Textual Variation 6. Forensic phonetics 7. Cybercrime Part
Two: Dealing with linguistic Evidence 8. Forensic texts 9. Forensic
transcription 10. Forensic authorship in practice 11. Investigating author
variation in naturalistic data 12. Forensic linguistic evidence in court
Part Three: The legal process: Language and the law 13. Power in legal
contexts: The courts 14. Power in legal contexts: The police 15. Vulnerable
witnesses Part Four: Language of the law 16. The law and us 17. The
language of statutes Appendix 1: Forensic texts Appendix 2: Exercises and
exercise commentaries Appendix 3: Active researchers in the field of the
forensic linguistics Bibliography Author Index Subject Index