Malcolm Coulthard
Biographic Data
| ID | 374511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Coulthard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulthard |
| SIGNATURE | COULTHARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8316-8957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
A tribute to Peter French on the occasion of his retirement from his role as founding editor of the Journal
Discourse and Social Life
Activity types, discourse types and interactional hybridity - the case of genetic counselling, Srikant Sarangi the uses of talk, Ruqaiya Hasan same grammar or different grammar? contrasting approaches to the grammar of spoken English discourse, Geoffrey Leech the construction of purpose in discourse, Theo van Leeuwen contrastive rhetoric and discourse analysis - who writes what to whom? when? in what circumstances? Robert B. Kaplan professional g…
In Memoriam - Maria Teresa Turell Julià 1949-2013
Maite, as she was universally known within the academic community died on
Texts and Practices
Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
Perigo, cuidado, atenção: A Comunicação Linguística De Risco Em Advertências De Produtos
Este artigo tem como foco central as advertências de produtos. Inicialmente, revisamos o que os linguistas Dumas, Fraser e Shuy discutem sobre a definição e avaliação de advertências, para depois examinar textos reais. Nós analisamos detalhadamente uma série de advertências de tintura capilar a fim de verificar os problemas de compreensão que elas criam para seus Leitores e até que ponto elas são deficientes. O artigo termina com uma análise deta…
Making a difference: Critical linguistic analysis in a legal context
One of the major problems for Critical Discourse Analysts is how to move on from their insightful critical analyses to successfully ‘acting on the world in order to transform it’. This paper discusses, with detailed exemplification, some of the areas where linguists have moved beyond description to acting on and changing the world. Examples from three murder trials show how essential it is, in order to protect the rights of witnesses and defendan…
Forensic Linguistics: The Application of Language Description in Legal Contexts
In this article I first divide Forensic Linguistics into three sub-disciplines : the language of written legal texts, the spoken language of legal proceedings, and the linguist as expert witness and then go on to give a small number of examples of the research undertaken in these three areas. For the language of written legal texts, I present work on the (in) comprehensibility of police cautions and of judges’ instructions to juries. For the spok…
The linguist as expert witness
This article illustrates the problems faced and the techniques used by the linguist when acting as an expert witness.Examples are drawn from a wide variety of cases, ranging from disputes about the meaning of individual morphemes in a trademark case and individual words in jury instructions, through grammatical complexity in a letter and a statute to the 'ownership' of particular words and phrases in two plagiarism cases and accusations of the fa…
Author Identification, Idiolect, and Linguistic Uniqueness
For forty years linguists have talked about idiolect and the uniqueness of individual utterances. This article explores how far these two concepts can be used to answer certain questions about the authorship of written documents—for instance how similar can two student essays be before one begins to suspect plagiarism? The article examines two ways of measuring similarity: the proportion of shared vocabulary and the number and length of shared ph…
Advances in Written Text Analysis
Introduction to Volume 7.1
Tools for the Trade
This paper describes and exemplifies the use of a series of computer programs, many of which have been specifically developed to analyse the short texts which are typical of much of the material with which forensic linguists work. The first part of the paper consists of a series of illustrations of how the programs could be used, or actually have been used, in cases of doubtful or disputed authorship, while the second half of the paper contains a…
A failed appeal
This article reproduces the written evidence given in a case taken to the Court of Appeal in England towards the end of 1996. The author shows that an analysis which most linguists consulted found compelling failed to convince judges in a real-world court context
On the use of corpora in the analysis of forensic texts
Twenty-five years ago Jan Svartvik published The Evans Statements: A Case For Forensic Linguistics in which he demonstrated that disputed parrs of a series of four statements, which had been dictated to police officers by Timothy Evans and incriminated him in the murder of his wife, had a measurably different grammatical style from the uncontested parrs and a new discipline was born. Initially its growth was slow; in unexpected places there appea…
Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis
The World in a Grain of Sand: Studies in Conversational Order
Talking with the Doctor, 1
Malcolm Coulthard, Margaret Ashby; Talking with the Doctor, 1, Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 3, 1 September 1975, Pages 140–147, https://doi.o
Forensic Linguistics: The Application of Language Description in Legal Contexts
In this article I first divide Forensic Linguistics into three sub-disciplines : the language of written legal texts, the spoken language of legal proceedings, and the linguist as expert witness and then go on to give a small number of examples of the research undertaken in these three areas. For the language of written legal texts, I present work on the (in) comprehensibility of police cautions and of judges’ instructions to juries. For the spok…
Talking with the Doctor, 1
Malcolm Coulthard, Margaret Ashby; Talking with the Doctor, 1, Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 3, 1 September 1975, Pages 140–147, https://doi.o
The World in a Grain of Sand: Studies in Conversational Order
On the use of corpora in the analysis of forensic texts
Twenty-five years ago Jan Svartvik published The Evans Statements: A Case For Forensic Linguistics in which he demonstrated that disputed parrs of a series of four statements, which had been dictated to police officers by Timothy Evans and incriminated him in the murder of his wife, had a measurably different grammatical style from the uncontested parrs and a new discipline was born. Initially its growth was slow; in unexpected places there appea…
Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis
A failed appeal
This article reproduces the written evidence given in a case taken to the Court of Appeal in England towards the end of 1996. The author shows that an analysis which most linguists consulted found compelling failed to convince judges in a real-world court context
Tools for the Trade
This paper describes and exemplifies the use of a series of computer programs, many of which have been specifically developed to analyse the short texts which are typical of much of the material with which forensic linguists work. The first part of the paper consists of a series of illustrations of how the programs could be used, or actually have been used, in cases of doubtful or disputed authorship, while the second half of the paper contains a…
Introduction to Volume 7.1
Advances in Written Text Analysis
Author Identification, Idiolect, and Linguistic Uniqueness
For forty years linguists have talked about idiolect and the uniqueness of individual utterances. This article explores how far these two concepts can be used to answer certain questions about the authorship of written documents—for instance how similar can two student essays be before one begins to suspect plagiarism? The article examines two ways of measuring similarity: the proportion of shared vocabulary and the number and length of shared ph…
The linguist as expert witness
This article illustrates the problems faced and the techniques used by the linguist when acting as an expert witness.Examples are drawn from a wide variety of cases, ranging from disputes about the meaning of individual morphemes in a trademark case and individual words in jury instructions, through grammatical complexity in a letter and a statute to the 'ownership' of particular words and phrases in two plagiarism cases and accusations of the fa…
Forensic Linguistics: The Application of Language Description in Legal Contexts
In this article I first divide Forensic Linguistics into three sub-disciplines : the language of written legal texts, the spoken language of legal proceedings, and the linguist as expert witness and then go on to give a small number of examples of the research undertaken in these three areas. For the language of written legal texts, I present work on the (in) comprehensibility of police cautions and of judges’ instructions to juries. For the spok…
Making a difference: Critical linguistic analysis in a legal context
One of the major problems for Critical Discourse Analysts is how to move on from their insightful critical analyses to successfully ‘acting on the world in order to transform it’. This paper discusses, with detailed exemplification, some of the areas where linguists have moved beyond description to acting on and changing the world. Examples from three murder trials show how essential it is, in order to protect the rights of witnesses and defendan…
Texts and Practices
Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
Perigo, cuidado, atenção: A Comunicação Linguística De Risco Em Advertências De Produtos
Este artigo tem como foco central as advertências de produtos. Inicialmente, revisamos o que os linguistas Dumas, Fraser e Shuy discutem sobre a definição e avaliação de advertências, para depois examinar textos reais. Nós analisamos detalhadamente uma série de advertências de tintura capilar a fim de verificar os problemas de compreensão que elas criam para seus Leitores e até que ponto elas são deficientes. O artigo termina com uma análise deta…
Discourse and Social Life
Activity types, discourse types and interactional hybridity - the case of genetic counselling, Srikant Sarangi the uses of talk, Ruqaiya Hasan same grammar or different grammar? contrasting approaches to the grammar of spoken English discourse, Geoffrey Leech the construction of purpose in discourse, Theo van Leeuwen contrastive rhetoric and discourse analysis - who writes what to whom? when? in what circumstances? Robert B. Kaplan professional g…
In Memoriam - Maria Teresa Turell Julià 1949-2013
Maite, as she was universally known within the academic community died on
Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
A tribute to Peter French on the occasion of his retirement from his role as founding editor of the Journal
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Discourse analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Law (3 works)