Routledge Handbook of Forensic 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.

'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, AustraliaFrom 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

• List of illustrationsList of conventions usedList of contributors and affiliationsNotes on editors and contributorsAcknowledgements1 IntroductionSection I The language of the law and the legal process1.1 Legal language and legal meaning2 Legal talk3 Legal writing: complexity4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis5 Creating multilingual law6 Legal interpretation1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations7 Miranda rights8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews9 False confessors 10 Police interviews in the judicial process11 Assuming identities online1.3 Language in the courtroom 12 Order in court13 Narrative in the trial14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom 15 Capitally speaking: language and bias in capital trials16 Multimodality in legal interaction 1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process 17 Instructions to jurors18 Vulnerable witnesses19 Rape victims20 Defendants’ allocutions at sentencing 21 Aboriginal claimantsSection II The linguist as expert in the legal process 2.1 Expert and process22 The forensic linguist23 Trademark linguistics24 Speaker profiling and forensic voice comparison25 Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition26 Forensic transcription27 Consumer product warnings28 Terrorism and forensic linguistics2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts 29 Non-native speakers in detention30 Court interpreting31 Interpreting outside the courtroom 2.3 Authorship and opinion32 Experts and opinions33 Forensic stylistics34 Text messaging forensics35 Plagiarism36 Computational forensic linguisticsSection III New directions37 Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics 38 Corpora and legal interpretation39 Police crisis negotiation40 Investigative linguistics 41 'Prison has been a proper punishment'42 Pranksters, provocateurs, propagandists43 Concluding remarksIndex