Coulthard, Malcolm.

An introduction to forensic linguistics : language in evidence / Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - x, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.

Approaching a forensic text -- The language of the law -- Legal genres -- Collecting evidence : calls to the emergency services and first encounters with witnesses and suspects -- Order in court -- The work of the forensic linguist -- The work of the forensic phonetician and the document examiner -- Idiolect and uniqueness of encoding -- On textual borrowing -- The linguist as expert witness.

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