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.