Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics Victoria Guillén-Nieto

Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030843298,3030843297

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030843297
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030843298
• Author(s): Victoria Guillén-Nieto, Dieter Stein

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics. Part I of the book focuses on the role of the linguist as an expert witness in common law and civil law jurisdictions, the relation of expert witnesses and lawyers, ethics standards, and courtroom interaction. Part II deals with some of the major areas of expertise of forensic linguistics as the scientific study of language as evidence, namely authorship identification, speaker identification, text authentication, deception and lie detection, plagiarism detection, and cyber language crimes. This book is intended to be used as a reference for academics, students and practitioners of Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Law, Criminology, and Forensic Psychology, among other disciplines.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Theory and Practice in Forensic Linguistics
2. Serving Science and Serving Justice: Ethical Issues Faced by Forensic Linguists in Their Role as Expert Witnesses
3. Linguistic Expert Evidence in the Common Law
4. Expert Evidence in Civil Law Systems
5. Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens
6. A Lie or Not a Lie, That Is the Question. Trying to Take Arms Against a Sea of Conceptual Troubles: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Linguistic Approaches to Lie Detection
7. Authorship Identification
8. Automatic Authorship Investigation
9. Speaker Identification
10. Plagiarism Detection: Methodological Approaches
11. The Linguistic Analysis of Suicide Notes
12. Fighting Cybercrime through Linguistic Analysis
13. Linguistic Approaches to the Analysis of Online Terrorist Threats

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