An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-61657-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Learning about Language

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations.

With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises, and links to further reading, topics covered include:

- Profiling from spoken and written texts

- Disputed meaning, and how meaning is made and evolves

- Interviewing techniques, including working around those who might be considered linguistically vulnerable

- Author and speaker determination

- Audio enhancement and authentication of recordings

- Language analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP)

Accompanied by online audio and video resources as well as signposting readers to freely available software to aid their studies, this book is the ideal springboard for students beginning work in forensic phonetics, forensic speech science, forensic linguistics, and law and language.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leemann, Adrian

Perkins, Ria

Buker, Grace Sullivan

Foulkes, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the authors

Acknowledgments

Copyright credits



Chapter 1: Introduction to the book

Chapter 2: Introduction to phonetic analysis

Chapter 3: Speaker profiling

Chapter 4: Speaker comparison

Chapter 5: Earwitness evidence

Chapter 6: Authentication, enhancement, and speech content determination

Chapter 7: Linguistic analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP)

Chapter 8: Grounding theory – Introduction to linguistic analysis

Chapter 9: Language and meaning

Chapter 10: Language of the judicial process

Chapter 11: Authorship profiling

Chapter 12: Comparative authorship analysis

Chapter 13: Expert witnesses



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Leemann is Professor of German Sociolinguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Ria Perkins works as a civil servant for the Ministry of Defence, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics in Birmingham, UK.

Grace Sullivan Buker is a Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication at Northeastern University, USA.

Paul Foulkes is Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of York, UK.