The Routledge handbook of forensic linguistics / edited by Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson.

Abingdon, Oxford : Routledge, 2010.

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Forensic linguistics.

Introduction

Section I. The language of the law and the legal process

1.1 Legal language

1.2 Participants in police investigations, interviews and interrogation

1.3 Courtroom genres

1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process

Section II. The linguist as expert in legal processes

2.1 Expert and process

2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts

2.3 Authorship and opinion

Section III. New debates and new directions.

Table of contents is taken from the published work with the permission of the publishe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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xxvii, 673 p. : illustrations ; 26 cm