The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

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.

List of illustrations List of conventions used List of contributors and affiliations Notes on editors and contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Alison May, Rui Sousa-Silva and Malcolm Coulthard 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 Alison May, Elizabeth Holt, Neveen Al Saeed and Nurshafawati Ahmad Sani 3 Legal writing: complexity Complex documents / average and not-so-average readers Gail Stygall 4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis Corpus linguistic approaches to ‘legal language’: adverbial expression of attitude and emphasis in supreme court opinions Edward Finegan and Benjamin T. Lee 5 Creating multilingual law Language and translation at the Court of Justice of the European Union Karen McAuliffe 6 Legal interpretation The category of ordinary meaning and its role in legal interpretation Christopher Hutton 1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations 7 Miranda rights Curtailing coercion in police interrogation: the failed promise of Miranda v. Arizona Janet Ainsworth 8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews Collecting oral evidence: the police, the public and the written word Frances Rock 9 False confessors The language of false confession in police interrogation Philip Gaines and Belén Lowrey-Kinberg 10 Police interviews in the judicial process Police interviews as evidence Kate Haworth 11 Assuming identities online Authorship synthesis in undercover investigations Nicci MacLeod 1.3 Language in the courtroom 12 Order in court Talk-in-interaction in the judicial process Paul Drew and Fabio Ferraz de Almeida 13 Narrative in the trial Constructing crime stories in court Chris Heffer 14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom (Con)Textual, ideational and interpersonal dimensions Krisda Chaemsaithong 15 Capitally speaking Language and bias in capital trials Mel Greenlee 16 Multimodality in legal interaction Beyond written and verbal modalities Gregory M. Matoesian and Kristin Enola Gilbert 1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process 17 Instructions to jurors Redrafting California’s jury instructions Peter M. Tiersma 18 Vulnerable witnesses Vulnerable witnesses in police investigative interviews in England and Wales Michelle Aldridge-Waddon 19 Rape victims The discourse of rape trials Susan Ehrlich 20 Defendants’ allocutions at sentencing Courtroom apologies M. Catherine Gruber 21 Aboriginal claimants Adjusting legal procedures to accommodate linguistic and cultural issues in hearings in Aboriginal land rights claims in the Northern Territory of Australia Peter R. A. Gray Section II The linguist as expert in the legal process 2.1 Expert and process 22 The forensic linguist The expert linguist meets the adversarial system Lawrence M. Solan 23 Trademark linguistics Trademarks: language that one owns Ronald R. Butters 24 Speaker profiling and forensic voice comparison The auditory-acoustic approach Michael Jessen 25 Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition The complementarity of human- and machine-based forensic speaker comparison Dominic Watt and Georgina Brown 26 Forensic transcription The case for transcription as a dedicated branch of linguistic science Helen Fraser 27 Consumer product warnings Composition, identification and assessment of adequacy Bethany K. Dumas 28 Terrorism and forensic linguistics Linguistics in terrorism cases Roger W. Shuy 2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts 29 Non-native speakers in detention Assessing the English language proficiency of non-native speakers in detention: an expert witness account Fiona English 30 Court interpreting The need to raise the bar: court interpreters as specialized experts Sandra Hale 31 Interpreting outside the courtroom ‘A shattered mirror?’ Interpreting in law enforcement contexts outside the courtroom Krzysztof Kredens, Eloísa Monteoliva-García and Ruth Morris 2.3 Authorship and opinion 32 Experts and opinions In my opinion Malcolm Coulthard 33 Forensic stylistics The theory and practice of forensic stylistics Gerald R. McMenamin 34 Text messaging forensics Txt 4n6: idiolect free authorship analysis? Tim Grant 35 Plagiarism Evidence-based detection and analysis in forensic contexts Rui Sousa-Silva 36 Computational forensic linguistics Computer-assisted document comparison David Woolls Section III New directions 37 Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics Applying corpus data and techniques in forensic contexts David Wright 38 Corpora and legal interpretation Corpus approaches to ordinary meaning in legal interpretation Stefan Th. Gries 39 Police crisis negotiation An assessment of existing models Dawn Archer and Matt Todd 40 Investigative linguistics Jack Grieve and Helena Woodfield 41 'Prison has been a proper punishment' Investigating stance in forensic and legal contexts Tammy Gales 42 Pranksters, provocateurs, propagandists Using forensic corpus linguistics to identify and understand trolling Claire Hardaker 43 Concluding remarks Future directions Malcolm Coulthard, Alison May and Rui Sousa-Silva Index

Malcolm Coulthard is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, UK. He was Foundation President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and founding co-editor of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (IJSLL) and is co-editor of the international journal Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito. Alison May (formerly Johnson) is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, UK. She is co-author of An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, 2nd edn. (with Malcolm Coulthard and David Wright, Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. Rui Sousa-Silva is Assistant Professor and researcher of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal. He is Publicity Officer of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and co-editor of the international journal Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito.