Part Ⅰ The Linguist in the Legal Process

1 To Testify or Not to Testify?&Roger W.Shuy

2 Whose Voice Is It? Invented and Concealed Dialogue in Written Records of Verbal Evidence Produced by the Police&Malcolm Coulthard

3 Textual Barriers to United States Immigration&Gail Stygall

4 The Language and Law of Product Warnings&Peter M.Tiersma

Part Ⅱ The Language of the Police and the Police Interview

5 ‘I Just Need to Ask Somebody Some Questions': Sensitivities in Domestic Dispute Calls&Karen Tracy and Robert R.Agne

6 So...?: Pragmatic Implications of So-Prefaced Questions in Formal Police Interviews&Alison Johnson

7 ‘Three's a Crowd': Shifting Dynamics in the Interpreted Interview&Sonia Russell

8 The Miranda Warnings and Linguistic Coercion: The Role of Footing in the Interrogation of a Limited-English-speaking Murder Suspect&Susan Berk-Seligson

Part Ⅲ The Language of the Courtroom Ⅰ: Lawyers and Witnesses

9 ‘Just One More Time...': Aspects of Intertextuality in the Trials of O.J.Simpson&Janet Cotterill

10 ‘Evidence Given in Unequivocal Terms...': Gaining Consent of Aboriginal Young People in Court&Diana Eades

11 The Clinton Scandal: Some Legal Lessons from Linguistics&Lawrence M.Solan

12 Understanding the Other: A Case of Mis-Interpreting Culture-Specific Utterances during Alternative Dispute Resolution&Rosemary Moeketsi

Part Ⅳ The Language of the Courtroom Ⅱ: Judges and Juries

13 The Meaning of ‘I Go Bankrupt': An Essay in Forensic Linguistics&Stan Bernstein

14 ‘If you were Standing in Marks and Spencers': Narrativisation and Comprehension in the English Summing-up&Chris Heffer

15 Reasonable Doubt about Reasonable Doubt: Assessing Jury Instruction Adequacy in a Capital Case&Bethany K.Dumas

16 Discipline and Punishment in the Discourse of Legal Decisions on Rape Trials&Debora de Carvalho Figueiredo

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