An introduction to forensic linguistics
Subtitle: language in evidence
By: Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Alison, 1959-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780415320238; 9780415320245
Subjects: Forensic linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching a forensic text; title: The language of the law; title: Legal genres; title: Collecting evidence : calls to the emergency services and first encounters with witnesses and suspects; title: Order in court; title: The work of the forensic linguist; title: The work of the forensic phonetician and the document examiner; title: Idiolect and uniqueness of encoding; title: On textual borrowing; title: The linguist as expert witness.