• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

    The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Coulthard, Malcolm; May, Alison; Sousa-Silva, Rui;

    Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics;

      • GET 20% OFF

      • The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
      • Publisher's listprice GBP 44.99
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        21 493 Ft (20 470 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount 20% (cc. 4 299 Ft off)
      • Discounted price 17 195 Ft (16 376 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount is valid until: 31 December 2025

    21 493 Ft

    db

    Availability

    Estimated delivery time: Expected time of arrival: end of January 2026.
    Not in stock at Prospero.

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Edition number 2, New edition
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 29 January 2024

    • ISBN 9780367531225
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages760 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Weight 1640 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 40 Illustrations, black & white; 17 Halftones, black & white; 23 Line drawings, black & white; 54 Tables, black & white
    • 533

    Categories

    Short description:

    This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing updated overviews from leading figures in the field and exciting new contributions. It is a vital resource for advanced students, researchers and scholars.

    More

    Long description:

    The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing both updated overviews from leading figures in the field and exciting new contributions from the next generation of forensic linguists.


    The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It comprises 43 chapters, including entirely new contributions from many international experts, in the areas of Aboriginal claimants, appraisal and stance, author identities online, biased language in capital trials, corpus approaches, false confessions, forensic phonetics, forensic transcription, the historical courtroom, legal interpretation, multilingual law, police crisis negotiation, speaker profiling, and trolling. The chapters include a wealth of examples and case studies so the reader can see forensic linguistics applied and in action. 


    Edited and authored by the world’s leading academics and practitioners, The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics is a vital resource for advanced students, researchers and scholars, and will also be of interest to legal, law enforcement and security professionals.



    'An exciting new edition of the original ground-breaking forensic linguistics handbook, featuring more than 20 new authors, joining almost 30 of the original authors. The new and updated chapters bring additional depth and breadth, and greater global diversity to this valuable resource. A must-read for scholars, researchers and practitioners in the rapidly developing field of language and the law.'


    Diana Eades, University of New England, Australia


    From reviews of the first edition:


    '... the editors have done a masterful job in providing the needed broad coverage in forensic linguistics, and helped the reader to draw connections and to cross-reference between the variety of papers presented.' - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

    More

    Table of Contents:


    List of illustrations




    List of conventions used




    List of contributors and affiliations




    Notes on editors and contributors




    Acknowledgements



    1 Introduction


    Section I The language of the law and the legal process


    1.1 Legal language and legal meaning



    2 Legal talk


    3 Legal writing: complexity


    4 Legal writing: attitude and emphasis


    5 Creating multilingual law



    6 Legal interpretation



     


    1.2 Witnesses and suspects in interviews and investigations



    7 Miranda rights



    8 Witnesses and suspects in interviews



    9 False confessors



    10 Police interviews in the judicial process



    11 Assuming identities online



     


    1.3 Language in the courtroom



    12 Order in court


    13 Narrative in the trial



    14 Advances in studies of the historical courtroom


    15 Capitally speaking: language and bias in capital trials



    16 Multimodality in legal interaction


     


    1.4 Lay participants in the judicial process



    17 Instructions to jurors


    18 Vulnerable witnesses



    19 Rape victims


    20 Defendants’ allocutions at sentencing



    21 Aboriginal claimants


     




    Section II The linguist as expert in the legal process


    2.1 Expert and process


    22 The forensic linguist



    23 Trademark linguistics



    24 Speaker profiling and forensic voice comparison



    25 Forensic phonetics and automatic speaker recognition



    26 Forensic transcription


    27 Consumer product warnings


    28 Terrorism and forensic linguistics


     


    2.2 Multilingualism in legal contexts



    29 Non-native speakers in detention


    30 Court interpreting


    31 Interpreting outside the courtroom


     


    2.3 Authorship and opinion



    32 Experts and opinions


    33 Forensic stylistics


    34 Text messaging forensics


    35 Plagiarism



    36 Computational forensic linguistics


     


    Section III New directions


    37 Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics



    38 Corpora and legal interpretation



    39 Police crisis negotiation


    40 Investigative linguistics


    41 'Prison has been a proper punishment'



    42 Pranksters, provocateurs, propagandists


    43 Concluding remarks


     




    Index

    More