Coulthard, Malcolm.

An introduction to forensic linguistics : language in evidence / Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson. - x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.

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.

9780415320238 (pbk.) 0415320232 (pbk.) 9780415320245 (hardback) 0415320240 (hardback)

2007040179


Forensic linguistics.

K2287.5 / .C68 2007

363.25