| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 5 |
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AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. The language of the law; The nature of legal language; Language education for law professionals; The language and communication of jury instruction; Policespeak; Legal translation; Part II. The language of the court; Questioning in common law criminal courts; Bilingual courtrooms: In the interests of justice?; The silent witness: Pragmatic and literal interpretations; Language and disadvantage before the law; Interpreting for the minority, interpreting for the power |
| Summary |
This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new research questions in the field. Perhaps the most striking feature of this collection is its range, strikingly illustrating the multi-dimensionality of Forensic Linguistics. All of the contributions share a preoccupation with the painstaking linguistic work involved, using and interpreting data in a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Language.
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Forensic linguistics.
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Law -- Translating.
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LAW -- Forensic Science.
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Forensic linguistics
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Law -- Language
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Law -- Translating
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Forensische Linguistik
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Forensische linguïstiek.
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Rechtstaal.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gibbons, John, 1946-
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Turell, M. Teresa, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2008030303 |
| ISBN |
9789027205216 |
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9027205213 |
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9789027291158 |
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9027291152 |
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1282104489 |
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9781282104488 |
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9786612104480 |
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6612104481 |
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