Full Description
This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations.
With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises, and links to further reading, topics covered include:
Profiling from spoken and written texts
Disputed meaning, and how meaning is made and evolves
Interviewing techniques, including working around those who might be considered linguistically vulnerable
Author and speaker determination
Audio enhancement and authentication of recordings
Language analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP)
Accompanied by online audio and video resources as well as signposting readers to freely available software to aid their studies, this book is the ideal springboard for students beginning work in forensic phonetics, forensic speech science, forensic linguistics, and law and language.
Contents
About the authors
Acknowledgments
Copyright credits
Chapter 1: Introduction to the book
Chapter 2: Introduction to phonetic analysis
Chapter 3: Speaker profiling
Chapter 4: Speaker comparison
Chapter 5: Earwitness evidence
Chapter 6: Authentication, enhancement, and speech content determination
Chapter 7: Linguistic analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP)
Chapter 8: Grounding theory - Introduction to linguistic analysis
Chapter 9: Language and meaning
Chapter 10: Language of the judicial process
Chapter 11: Authorship profiling
Chapter 12: Comparative authorship analysis
Chapter 13: Expert witnesses
Index
