Title: The Linguistics of Crime
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/stylistics/linguistics-crime?format=PB&isbn=9781108456951

Editor(s): John Douthwaite and Ulrike Tabbert

Paperback ISBN: 9781108456951 Pages: 349 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback ISBN: 9781108456951 Pages: 349 Price: Europe EURO 26.83
Paperback ISBN: 9781108456951 Pages: 349 Price: U.S. $ 29.99

Abstract:

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this book explores the analysis of crime-related language. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and intertextuality, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres, both fictitious (crime novels, and crime in TV, film and music), and in real life (crime reporting, prison discourse, and statements used in courts). It touches on current political topics like #BlackLivesMatter, human (child) trafficking, and the genocide of the Kurds among others, making it essential reading for linguists, criminologists and those with a general interest in crime-related topics alike. Covering a variety of text genres and methodological approaches, and united by the aim of deciphering how crime is portrayed ideologically, this book is the next step in developing research at the intersection of linguistics, criminology, literature and media studies.

Written In: English (eng)