LINGUIST List 13.3371

Fri Dec 20 2002

Books: Forensic Linguistics: Cotterill (ed.)

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1. f.kennedy, Language in the Legal Process: Cotterill (ed.)

		
Title: Language in the Legal Process
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
 http://www.palgrave.com
			
Availability: Available
		
Editor: Janet Cotterill

Hardback: ISBN: 0333969022, Pages: 296, Price: GBP50.00
Comment: 216x138mm
			
Abstract:
			
Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems
explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with
the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as
expert witness or in legal language reform. Subsequent chapters
analyze different aspects of language and interaction in the chain of
events from a police emergency call through the police interview
context and into the courtroom, as well as appeal court and
alternative routes to justice.

Contents:

List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on the
Contributors - Introduction: Language in the Legal Process;
J.Cotterill -PART I: THE LINGUIST IN THE LEGAL PROCESS - To Testify or
Not to Testify?; R.W.Shuy - Whose Voice Is It? Invented and Concealed
Dialogue in Written Records of Verbal Evidence Produced by the Police;
M.Coulthard - Textual Barriers to United States Immigration; G.Stygall
- The Language and Law of Product Warnings; P.M.Tiersma - PART II: THE
LANGUAGE OF THE POLICE AND THE POLICE INTERVIEW - 'I Just Need to Ask
Somebody Some Questions': Sensitivities in Domestic Dispute Calls;
K.Tracy & R.R.Agne - So...? Pragmatic Implications of So-Prefaced
Questions in Formal Police Interviews; A.Johnson - 'Three's a Crowd':
Shifts in Dynamics in the Interpreted Interview; S.Russell - The
Miranda Warnings and Linguistic Coercion: The Role of Footing in the
Interrogation of a Limited-English Speaking Murder Suspect;
S.Berk-Seligson - PART III: THE LANGUAGE OF THE COURTROOM I: LAWYERS
AND WITNESSES - 'Just One More Time...': Change and Continuity in
Courtroom Narratives in the Trials of OJ Simpson; J.Cotterill -
'Evidence Given in Unequivocal Terms': Gaining Consent of Aboriginal
Young People in Court; D.Eades - The Clinton Scandal: Some Legal
Lessons from Linguistics; L.M.Solan - Understanding the Other: A Case
of Mis-Interpreting Culture-Specific Utterances at Alternative Dispute
Resolution; R.H.Moeketsi - PATY IV: THE LANGUAGE OF THE COURTROOM II:
JUDGES AND JURIES - The Meaning of 'I Go Bankrupt': An Essay in
Forensic Linguistics; S.Bernstein - 'If You Were Standing in Marks and
Spencers': Narrativization and Comprehension in the English
Summing-Up; C.Heffer - Reasonable Doubt about Reasonable Doubt:
Assessing Jury Instruction Adequacy in a Capital Case; B.K.Dumas -
Discipline and Punishment in the Discourse of Legal Decision on Rape
Trials; D.de C.Figueiredo

JANET COTTERILL is a Lecturer in Language and Communication at Cardiff
University. She is Joint Editor of Forensic Linguistics: The
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.
			
Lingfield(s): Forensic Linguistics

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)