The Routledge handbook of forensic linguistics / edited by Malcolm Coulthard, Alison May, Rui Sousa-Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coulthard, Malcolm, editor.

May, Alison, 1959- editor.

Sousa-Silva, Rui, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in applied linguistics.

Routledge handbooks in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (761 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of contents

Illustrations

Conventions used

Contributors and affiliations

Notes on editors and contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Introduction

What is forensic linguistics?

Contents and organisation

Section I - The language of the law and the legal process

Subsection 1.1 Legal language and legal meaning

Subsection 1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations

Subsection 1.3 Language in the courtroom

Subsection 1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process

Section II - The linguist as expert in the legal process

Subsection 2.1 Expert and process

Subsection 2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts

Subsection 2.3 Authorship and opinion

Section III - New directions

Concluding observations

References

Section I The language of the law and the legal process

1.1 Legal language and legal meaning

2 Legal talk: Socio-pragmatic aspects of legal questioning: police interviews, prosecutorial discourse and trial discourse

Question form and function

Questions and turn-taking

Interrogative syntax

Pragmatics of questions - language at work

Making contrasts

Reporting speech

Lexical signalling

Evaluating, summarising, repeating, formulating and challenging through questions

And- and so-prefaced questions

Formulations

SAY questions

Repeating questions

Conclusion

Further reading

3 Legal writing: complexity: Complex documents / average and not-so-average readers

Types of documents

Pension plan documents

Credit card disclosures

Literacy issues in the U.S.

Other relevant research

References.

4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis: Corpus linguistic approaches to 'legal language': adverbial expression of ...

U.S. court systems

Expressing attitude and emphasis: justice with an attitude

Emphatic adverbials and their prohibition

Adverbs and adverbials

COSCO-II, CUSSCO and COCA

Adverbs and adverbials in COSCO-II

Attitudinal and emphatic adverbs in COSCO-II, CUSSCO and COCA

Efficacy of emphatics in appellate briefs

Language and thought

5 Creating multilingual law: Language and translation at the Court of Justice of the European Union

Methodology

Language and translation at the CJEU

Pivot translation

Lawyer-linguists and translations with the force of law

Layers of (hidden) translation

Notes

6 Legal interpretation: The category of ordinary meaning and its role in legal interpretation

The interpretive culture of law

Technical, trade and scientific meanings

The dictionary and the language expert

What is a sandwich?

Corpus linguistics and legal interpretation

Self-classification and ordinary meaning

1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations

7 Miranda rights: Curtailing coercion in police interrogation: the failed promise of Miranda v. Arizona

Coercion and confessions

Miranda v. Arizona - an attempt to prevent police over-reaching and to promote reliability of confessions

Miranda as implemented: no remedy for police coercion after all

The language of warning

The language of waiver

The language of invocation

Questioning 'outside' Miranda

The Supreme Court reconsiders the Miranda framework.

The role for linguists in preventing miscarriages of justice

8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews: Collecting oral evidence: the police, the public and the written word

How do reading and writing figure in interviews?

Intertextuality and literacies in police interviews

Writing that is brought into interviews

Writing that is taken from interviews

9 False confessors: The language of false confession in police interrogation

The cause of false confessions

The psychology of false confession

The decision to falsely confess

Voluntary false confessions

Interrogation-induced false confessions

Linguistic form/content of false confession discourse/statements

Linguistic content of false confessions

Discourse features of false confessions

Lexico-grammatical and syntactic features of false confessions

Linguistic form/content of police interrogation in cases of false confession

Leading questions and statements

Presupposition-bearing questions

Confession contamination

Conclusion and suggestions for further research

10 Police interviews in the judicial process: Police interviews as evidence

The role of police-suspect interviews

Some problems

Format

Context

Audience

Data analysis

Prosecution v. defence

Discussion: interviews as evidence

11 Assuming identities online: Authorship synthesis in undercover investigations

The policing of online child sexual abuse

Training linguistic analysis and synthesis

Theorising language and identity

Conclusions

Acknowledgement

1.3 Language in the courtroom.

12 Order in Court: Talk-in-interaction in judicial settings

Key themes in Order in Court

The pre-allocated turn-taking system for courtroom interaction

Questioning

Social actions

Strategy and the micro-analysis of 'power'

Limitations of Order in Court

Recent developments in research into social interaction in judicial settings

Future directions

13 Narrative in the trial: Constructing crime stories in court

Narrative and the trial process

Jury selection and emplotment

Preliminary instruction, the legal framework and story negotiation

Opening statements, narration and character navigation

Witness examination and mediated narration

Cross-examination and character navigation

Closing arguments, the trial story and character navigation

Jury instruction and narrativization

Jury deliberation, emplotment and narrative decision-making

Sentencing and beyond: a moral coda

Note

14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom: (Con)Textual, ideational and interpersonal dimensions

(Con)Textual dimension

Recent discoveries in historical courtroom discourse

Ideational dimension

Interpersonal dimension

Analysis of ideational and interpersonal aspects in early opening statements

Conclusion and future directions

15 Capitally speaking Language and bias in capital trials

Jury selection

Death qualification

Racial imbalance

Evidentiary phase

California's language diversity &amp

capital trials

Language errors mar the proceedings

A case study

Juror deliberations: questions and confusion

16 Multimodality in legal interaction: Beyond written and verbal modalities

Multimodality

Gesture

Gaze, facial expression, posture and movement

Materiality

Data in legal contexts

Multimodal conduct in the courtroom

Closing argument

Cross-examination

1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process

17 Instructions to jurors: Redrafting California's jury instructions

Background

Developments in California

Old v. new: some civil instructions

Criminal instructions

The problem of death penalty instructions

18 Vulnerable witnesses: Vulnerable witnesses in police investigative interviews in England and Wales

Vulnerable witnesses in the legal system in England and Wales

Vulnerable witnesses: children

The phased interview - building rapport

The phased interview - free narrative account phase

The phased interview - questioning

The phased interview - closure

Adult witnesses with intellectual disability (ID) and/or communication disorders

The role of the registered intermediary

The role of communication aids

Vulnerable witnesses in the courtroom

19 Rape victims: The discourse of rape trials

The adjudication of rape cases

Questions in trial discourse

The power of questions to control information in acquaintance rape trials

Syntactic repetition: intensifying the control of questions in acquaintance rape trials

Integration of gesture and speech

Contesting cultural mythologies surrounding rape

20 Defendants' allocutions at sentencing: Courtroom apologies

Introduction.

The context of the courtroom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-03058-4

0-429-63825-6

0-429-64142-7

9780429030581

OCLC:

1224354522