1st Edition
Researching Forensic Linguistics Approaches and Applications
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Language Crimes
Chapter 1 Authorship Attribution Case File: Murder in Mackay
Chapter 2 Legal Language Interpretation Case File: Solvency and Semantics
Part II Police procedures
Chapter 3 Police Interviewing: Questioning Strategies in UK and USA Models of Training
Chapter 4 Lie Detection and Linguistics
Chapter 5 Police Cautions and Comprehension
Part III Legal Process
Chapter 6 Anonymous Reporting of Sexual Assault: Assessing the Value of Online, Form-Based Reporting
Chapter 7 Legal Investigative Interviewing: Questioning Strategies in Civil and Administrative Investigations
Chapter 8 Access to Justice: Post-Colonial Language Attitudes
Chapter 9 Generating Data for Forensic Linguistic Research
Index
Biography
Georgina Heydon is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) and President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. She has published extensively on the discourse and conversational structures of police interviews and other forms of crime reporting. Associate Professor Heydon regularly delivers interviewing training to police and judicial audiences around the world and provides expert evidence in court cases involving language issues.
'It is altogether fitting and proper for experienced and knowledgeable scholars like Professor Heydon to share their expertise about how to solve human problems. And this is exactly what she does with numerous highly readable, evidence-based case studies that will surely inspire newcomers to enter this field while also supporting veteran linguists in our rapidly developing field of forensic linguistics. Although her book abounds with citations from linguistic theory and research, Professor Heydon still treats her readers to a fascinating tour of law cases in which linguistic rubber meets the realistic road of law.'
Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University, USA
