Janet Cotterill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Cotterill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Cotterill |
| SIGNATURE | COTTERILL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Corpus Analysis In Forensic Linguistics
This article looks in two directions with respect to the use of corpora within forensic linguistics
A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics by Joann Swann, Ana Deumert, Theresa Lillis and Rajend Mesthrie
‘You do not have to say anything …’: Instructing the jury on the defendant’s right to silence in the English criminal justice system
‘You do not have to say anything …’: Instructing the jury on the defendant’s right to silence in the English criminal justice system
The right to silence is both a fundamental and a controversial element of the legal process. Suspects and defendants are reminded repeatedly of this entitlement, from the moment of arrest, where the police caution explains that ‘you do not have to say anything ...’, to the right of defendants in criminal trials to decline to testify in their own defence. However, the decision to remain silent is not a risk-free strategy for the suspect/defendant …
Collocation, Connotation, and Courtroom Semantics: Lawyers' Control of Witness Testimony through Lexical Negotiation
A great deal has been written about the ways in which lawyers' questioning strategies, particularly during cross-examination, may be considered coercive and intimidating for witnesses, even potentially contributing to the wrongful acquittal of guilty defendants. The primary focus of analytical attention in identifying such practices has been the use of closed and/or leading questions, which restrict the response options for the witness, either by…
Dr. Sonia Russell: 1945-2002
Sonia Russell was born in Leicester, England in 1945.She moved to Australia at the age of 3, where she lived until the family returned to England when she was 11.Sonia trained in ballet and at 17 joined the Arts Theatre in Rouen, touring France and Italy.Subsequently, she became involved in the travel and tourism industry, running language courses and spending periods as a member of cabin crew both at sea and in the air.After training as a French…
Representing Reality in Court: Power and Persuasion in Trial Discourse, as exemplified in The People v. Orenthal James Simpson
Representing Reality in Court explores the language of the US adversarial trial process as exemplified in the infamous case of Orenthal James (OJ) Simpson. In 1995, Simpson, the all-American football hero turned actor and celebrity, was charged with the double homicide of his ex-wife and a male friend. The resulting trial lasted nine months, involved 126 witnesses and cost Los Angeles County an estimated $9 million. This thesis examines the trial…
Domestic Discord, Rocky Relationships: Semantic Prosodies in Representations of Marital Violence in the O.J. Simpson Trial
This article addresses one of the central concerns of the forensic linguist: the analysis of courtroom discourse and the identification of potentially discriminatory linguistic practices within the criminal justice system. This critical linguistic analysis examines the semantic prosodies of some of the words and phrases used to describe domestic violence at trial, a key issue in the O.J. Simpson double homicide case. The article considers data fr…
Reading the rights: A cautionary tale of comprehension and comprehensibility
The UK police caution, delivered to suspects on arrest, has undergone a number of rewrites, most recently in 1995 as a reaction to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994. This paper analyses the role played by police officers when delivering the caution in influencing its comprehensibility, by means of an in situ study of 100 detained persons and 50 police officers. Findings indicate that there is considerable variability in the paraphra…
Introduction to Volume 7.1
‘If it doesn't fit, you must acquit’: Metaphor and the O.J. Simpson criminal trial
This paper analyses the use of metaphor in the prosecution and defence closing arguments of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial as a conceptualizing device for both the trial and its participants. It studies the relative distribution of these representations, which include military, sporting and theatrical metaphors. Moreover it shows that these metaphorical constructs serve very different functions; in the prosecution closing argument as a structuri…
Domestic Discord, Rocky Relationships: Semantic Prosodies in Representations of Marital Violence in the O.J. Simpson Trial
This article addresses one of the central concerns of the forensic linguist: the analysis of courtroom discourse and the identification of potentially discriminatory linguistic practices within the criminal justice system. This critical linguistic analysis examines the semantic prosodies of some of the words and phrases used to describe domestic violence at trial, a key issue in the O.J. Simpson double homicide case. The article considers data fr…
‘If it doesn't fit, you must acquit’: Metaphor and the O.J. Simpson criminal trial
This paper analyses the use of metaphor in the prosecution and defence closing arguments of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial as a conceptualizing device for both the trial and its participants. It studies the relative distribution of these representations, which include military, sporting and theatrical metaphors. Moreover it shows that these metaphorical constructs serve very different functions; in the prosecution closing argument as a structuri…
Reading the rights: A cautionary tale of comprehension and comprehensibility
The UK police caution, delivered to suspects on arrest, has undergone a number of rewrites, most recently in 1995 as a reaction to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994. This paper analyses the role played by police officers when delivering the caution in influencing its comprehensibility, by means of an in situ study of 100 detained persons and 50 police officers. Findings indicate that there is considerable variability in the paraphra…
Introduction to Volume 7.1
Representing Reality in Court: Power and Persuasion in Trial Discourse, as exemplified in The People v. Orenthal James Simpson
Representing Reality in Court explores the language of the US adversarial trial process as exemplified in the infamous case of Orenthal James (OJ) Simpson. In 1995, Simpson, the all-American football hero turned actor and celebrity, was charged with the double homicide of his ex-wife and a male friend. The resulting trial lasted nine months, involved 126 witnesses and cost Los Angeles County an estimated $9 million. This thesis examines the trial…
Domestic Discord, Rocky Relationships: Semantic Prosodies in Representations of Marital Violence in the O.J. Simpson Trial
This article addresses one of the central concerns of the forensic linguist: the analysis of courtroom discourse and the identification of potentially discriminatory linguistic practices within the criminal justice system. This critical linguistic analysis examines the semantic prosodies of some of the words and phrases used to describe domestic violence at trial, a key issue in the O.J. Simpson double homicide case. The article considers data fr…
Dr. Sonia Russell: 1945-2002
Sonia Russell was born in Leicester, England in 1945.She moved to Australia at the age of 3, where she lived until the family returned to England when she was 11.Sonia trained in ballet and at 17 joined the Arts Theatre in Rouen, touring France and Italy.Subsequently, she became involved in the travel and tourism industry, running language courses and spending periods as a member of cabin crew both at sea and in the air.After training as a French…
Collocation, Connotation, and Courtroom Semantics: Lawyers' Control of Witness Testimony through Lexical Negotiation
A great deal has been written about the ways in which lawyers' questioning strategies, particularly during cross-examination, may be considered coercive and intimidating for witnesses, even potentially contributing to the wrongful acquittal of guilty defendants. The primary focus of analytical attention in identifying such practices has been the use of closed and/or leading questions, which restrict the response options for the witness, either by…
‘You do not have to say anything …’: Instructing the jury on the defendant’s right to silence in the English criminal justice system
‘You do not have to say anything …’: Instructing the jury on the defendant’s right to silence in the English criminal justice system
The right to silence is both a fundamental and a controversial element of the legal process. Suspects and defendants are reminded repeatedly of this entitlement, from the moment of arrest, where the police caution explains that ‘you do not have to say anything ...’, to the right of defendants in criminal trials to decline to testify in their own defence. However, the decision to remain silent is not a risk-free strategy for the suspect/defendant …
A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics by Joann Swann, Ana Deumert, Theresa Lillis and Rajend Mesthrie
Corpus Analysis In Forensic Linguistics
This article looks in two directions with respect to the use of corpora within forensic linguistics
Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminal justice (4 works)