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9780631212461

Forensic Linguistics An Introduction to Language in the Justice System

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    9780631212461

  • ISBN10:

    0631212469

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-01-31
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Forensic Linguistics is an introduction to the fascinating interface between language and the law. Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues. Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts. Discusses linguistic sources of disadvantage before the law, particularly for ethnic minorities, children and abused women.

Author Biography

John Gibbons teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is author of Code Mixing and Code Choice (1987), editor of Language and the Law (1994), and co-editor of Learning, Keeping, and Using Language (1991). He is President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, and is on the board of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics and Discurso y Sociedad.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface vi
Examples and Conventions vii
Introduction: The Law and Language 1(14)
Literacy and the Law
15(21)
The Pursuit of Precision
36(38)
Interaction and Power
74(55)
Telling the story
129(33)
Communication Issues in the Legal System
162(38)
Language and Disadvantage before the Law
200(28)
Bridging the Gap
228(28)
Law on Language
256(25)
Linguistic Evidence
281(29)
References 310(17)
Index of Legal Cases and Legislation 327(2)
Index 329

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