Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence
\ Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson.
London, New York
: Routledge
, 2007.
x, 237 p.
: ill.
Code E.Book: 10945
Bibliography.
Approaching a forensic text -- The language of the law -- Legal genres -- Collecting evidence : calls to the emergency services and first encounters with witnesses and suspects -- Order in court -- The work of the forensic linguist -- The work of the forensic phonetician and the document examiner -- Idiolect and uniqueness of encoding -- On textual borrowing -- The linguist as expert witness.