Forensic Linguistics
The Application of Language Description in Legal Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4413134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Coulthard (0000-0001-8316-8957, Aston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 15-33 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Langage et société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0181-4095 • E-ISSN: 2101-0382 |
| Publisher | CAIRN (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/ls.132.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2010851922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
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 spoken language of legal proceedings, I report work on the problems of interpreted interaction, of vulnerable witnesses and the need for more detailed research comparing the interactive rules in adversarial and investigative systems. Finally, to illustrate the role of the linguist as expert witness I report a trademark case, five different authorship attribution cases, three very different plagiarism cases and I end reporting briefly the contribution of linguists to language assessment techniques used in the linguistic classification of asylum seekers
Adversarial system · Applied linguistics · Authorship attribution · Expert witness · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Political science · Witness · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence
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The role of ‘educated native speakers’ in providing language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |