The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

'An exciting new edition of the original ground-breaking forensic linguistics handbook, featuring more than 20 new authors, joining almost 30 of the original authors. The new and updated chapters bring additional depth and breadth, and greater global diversity to this valuable resource. A must-read for scholars, researchers and practitioners in the rapidly developing field of language and the law.' Diana Eades, University of New England, Australia From reviews of the first edition: '... the editors have done a masterful job in providing the needed broad coverage in forensic linguistics, and helped the reader to draw connections and to cross-reference between the variety of papers presented.' - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

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.

List of illustrations List of conventions used List of contributors and affiliations Notes on editors and contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Section I The language of the law and the legal process 1.1 Legal language and legal meaning 2 Legal talk 3 Legal writing: complexity 4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis 5 Creating multilingual law 6 Legal interpretation 1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations 7 Miranda rights 8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews 9 False confessors 10 Police interviews in the judicial process 11 Assuming identities online 1.3 Language in the courtroom 12 Order in court 13 Narrative in the trial 14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom 15 Capitally speaking: language and bias in capital trials 16 Multimodality in legal interaction 1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process 17 Instructions to jurors 18 Vulnerable witnesses 19 Rape victims 20 Defendants allocutions at sentencing 21 Aboriginal claimants Section II The linguist as expert in the legal process 2.1 Expert and process 22 The forensic linguist 23 Trademark linguistics 24 Speaker profiling and forensic voice comparison 25 Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition 26 Forensic transcription 27 Consumer product warnings 28 Terrorism and forensic linguistics 2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts 29 Non-native speakers in detention 30 Court interpreting 31 Interpreting outside the courtroom 2.3 Authorship and opinion 32 Experts and opinions 33 Forensic stylistics 34 Text messaging forensics 35 Plagiarism 36 Computational forensic linguistics Section III New directions 37 Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics 38 Corpora and legal interpretation 39 Police crisis negotiation 40 Investigative linguistics 41 'Prison has been a proper punishment' 42 Pranksters, provocateurs, propagandists 43 Concluding remarks Index