In:Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics
Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 5] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 21 November 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.5.toc
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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
Part III. Forensic linguistic evidence
Approaching questions in forensic authorship analysis
Trademarks and other proprietary terms
Deception and fraud
Plagiarism
Contributors
Language index307
Subject index
