Full Description
Researching Forensic Linguistics is an informative, hands-on guide to conducting research in forensic linguistics that can underpin legal and justice practices and address social justice problems involving language.
Georgina Heydon takes readers step by step through the research process using case studies that draw on different types of forensic and legal language data such as police interviews, anonymous reports of sexual assault, threatening letters and justice stakeholder interviews. Each chapter is framed by a language problem arising from either forensic linguistic case work or a key issue in language and the law. Up-to-date research methods in forensic linguistics are presented, including authorship attribution using online corpora, practice-based linguistic analysis and experimental techniques.
This is an ideal companion for linguists who want to apply their skills to a forensic setting, practitioners in the legal and justice fields seeking to understand how linguistic analysis can support their work, and any student undertaking research in forensic linguistics within English language, linguistics, applied linguistics and legal studies.
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Language Crimes
Chapter 1 Authorship Attribution Case File: Murder in Mackay
Chapter 2 Legal Language Interpretation Case File: Solvency and Semantics
Part II Police procedures
Chapter 3 Police Interviewing: Questioning Strategies in UK and USA Models of Training
Chapter 4 Lie Detection and Linguistics
Chapter 5 Police Cautions and Comprehension
Part III Legal Process
Chapter 6 Anonymous Reporting of Sexual Assault: Assessing the Value of Online, Form-Based Reporting
Chapter 7 Legal Investigative Interviewing: Questioning Strategies in Civil and Administrative Investigations
Chapter 8 Access to Justice: Post-Colonial Language Attitudes
Chapter 9 Generating Data for Forensic Linguistic Research
Index
