John Olsson, June Luchjenbroers

Forensic Linguistics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472569578
• Artikelnr.: 40177014

Autorenporträt

John Olsson operated a world-renowned forensic linguistics consultancy and training service at www.thetext.co.uk from 1996 onwards. He worked an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA, where he taught forensic linguistics online. He was also Visiting Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia where he ran an annual summer school in Forensic Linguistics, and was a board member of the Language and Law Centre at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he was also a visiting Professor. He was then 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.

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