Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa

Origins, Progress, and Prospects
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-70516-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten

Reihe: Elements in Forensic Linguistics

This Element introduces the study of forensic linguistics, particularly in southern Africa, but also in Africa more generally. In the past six decades, there has been clear evidence that the discipline of forensic linguistics is, or was, unknown to general linguists, legal linguists, and applied linguists on the African continent. Now, however, the situation is rapidly changing, with forensic linguistics studies gaining momentum in various parts of Africa. In this Element the authors introduce the topic, define the discipline, address the language of record issue in southern Africa, as well as critically debate the state of court interpreting and translation of documentation into African languages, address police interviewing techniques, while also looking at possible future developments in the discipline of forensic linguistics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaschula, Russell H

Ralarala, Monwabisi K

Mabasso, Eliseu

Docrat, Zakeera

Kondowe, Wellman

Svongoro, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series preface; 1. Introduction to African forensic linguistics; 2. Language of record and proceedings in southern Africa; 3. Legal interpreting in southern Africa; 4. An overview of the challenges in police investigative interviewing in multilingual southern Africa; 5. Forensic linguistics in southern Africa: charting future directions; References.