Whither Forensic Linguistics?

Malcolm Coulthard

Aston University, United Kingdom

Multilingual courtroom: Interpreting practices at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Ludmila Stern¹, Nata Hajdu² and Stefan Mikulin³

¹UNSW, Australia; ²Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona Spain; ³University of Salford, UK

Cultural differences in investigative interaction

Paul J. Taylor¹, Ellen Giebels², Karlijn Beune², Augusto Gnisci³ and Samuel Tomblin¹

¹Lancaster University, United Kingdom; ²Twente University, The Netherlands; ³Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

Studies in Forensic Linguistics for Pre-law Students: Language minority issues in the U.S. legal system

William Gregory Eggington and 18 students from BYU to be named later

Brigham Young University, United States of America

The Undergraduate Classroom in Focus: Learning to Research Forensic Linguistics

Alison Jeannette Johnson, Ruth Clifford, Francisco Alberto Gomez Moya, Kath Oldroyd and Claire Tierney

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Language ideologies, inequality and the legal process

Diana Eades

University of New England, Australia

Getting the story from child witnesses: Applying a story grammar framework

Pamela Claire Snow¹ and Martine Beryl Powell²

¹Monash University, Australia; ²Deakin University, Australia

‘Our lives will never be the same again’: a study of witness impact statements and their recent introduction into the British criminal justice system

Janet Cotterill

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Australian Indigenous Witnesses and their Narratives in the Courtroom Context.

Judith Rochecouste¹, Ellen Grote², Ann Galloway³ and Graham McKay³

¹Monash University, Australia; ²Private Research Consultant; ³Edith Cowan University

Linguistic Analysis of Witness Statements in Litigations

Gabrijela Kišiček¹ and Lucia Miškulin Saletović²

¹Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia (Hrvatska); ²University of Applied Sciences Vern, Department for German Language

UK Police Interviews: An Analysis of Overlapping Talk in Afro-Caribbean and White British Suspect Interviews

Claire Emma Louise Jones

The Police Foundation, United Kingdom

The cognitive status of referring expressions in police interviews

Lorna Fadden

Simon Fraser University, Canada

‘The discursive construction of evidence in the police interview: case study of a rape suspect.’

Kate Haworth

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

How talking and typing work together in a police interrogation

Tessa Cyrina van Charldorp

VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

"Maybe we can't prove you mean it, but...": Using 'community of practice' arguments to measure speaker intent.

June Luchjenbroers and Michelle Aldridge

Bangor University, United Kingdom

From Court Transcripts to a Semi-automated Argumentation System

Adam Wyner

King's College London, United Kingdom

A Case Study on the Frame of Legal Language

Pi-chan Hu

National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Narrative Domains in Serial Offender Narrative Discourse: Implications for Geographic Profiling

Blake Stephen Howald

Georgetown University, United States of America

Towards a morpho-syntactic base-rate knowledge: apparent and real time dimensions of idiolectometric analyses of Catalan

Maria Teresa TURELL

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Spain

Morpho-syntactic idiolectal similitude in written Spanish

Maria S. Spassova

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Stylometric and error analysis in the context of a style shift in abusive e-mail texts

Hilton Hubbard

University of South Africa, South Africa

Indicators of authorship by a L1 German speaker for English texts.

Ria Charlotte Perkins and Tim Grant

Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, United Kingdom www.forensiclinguistics.net

Quality of witness testimony taken with the assistance of unqualified interpreters and its impact on a criminal trial– an Irish example.

Karolina Jarmolowska

Dublin City University, Ireland (Republic of)

Testifying with a court interpreter or without: Comparing recurrent narratives across proceedings

Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer

York University, Canada

The Dynamics of Interaction in Magistrates' Courts in St. Lucia.

Sandra Evans

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Who’s Telling the Truth?:Revisiting an Interrogation of an Accused Child Abuser

Kristina Ingrid Beckman¹ and Mark McBeth²

¹Pima Community College, United States of America; ²John Jay College of Criminal Justics, New York City, NY, USA

Interpreting 'uninterpretable' silences in police interviews

Ikuko Nakane

University of Melbourne, Australia

Police Interview and Court Proceedings -- In Search of Truth

Ester. Sin-man Leung

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. - China

Appraisal Linguistic Resources in Chinese Vs Common-law Civil Judgments of Intellectual Property Infringment Cases

Chuanyou Yuan

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, China, Peoples Republic of

"If it doesn't fit you must acquit": 'Reasonable Doubt' and its influence on Modality in the Courtroom.

Lorenzo Patino

University of Ottawa, Canada

Advances in Threat Assessment and Analysis Techniques: the Communicated Threat Assessment Reference Corpus (CTARC)

Tammy Gales^1,2 and James Fitzgerald²

¹University of California, Davis, United States of America; ²Academy Group, Inc., United States of America

Strangers in the Court? Identifying legal Maori language

Mamari Stephens

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Professionalisation and standards in forensic linguistic practice.

Tim Grant

Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, United Kingdom

Language and power in a dialect speaking court: the case of Cyprus

GIORGOS VASOU GEORGIOU

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Resolving Unresolvable Ambiguity in an Expert Witness's Testimony: A Court

Ronald Richard Butters and Tyler Kendall

Duke University, United States of America

“So did you actually see him…”: Discourse markers, formulations and narrative evaluation in police interviews with rape complainants.

Nicci MacLeod

Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, United Kingdom

Courtroom Interaction

Daniela Negraes Pinheiro Andrade

Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos, Brazil

Confrontational formulations in police interrogations

Keun Young Sliedrecht

VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

The Biggest Debt, The Least Understood: Comprehension of U.S. Mortgages

Gail Stygall

University of Washington, United States of America

Great Expectations: A Radical New Approach to Assessing Readability in Legal Documents

George D. Gopen

Duke University, United States of America

Latinisms in legal language revisited: comprehensibility within and across borders?

Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos and Isabel Balteiro-Fernández

University of Alicante, Spain, Spain

Linguistic Ideology versus Linguistic Practice: The Cognitive and Cultural Challenge of Code-Switching to English-Only Rules in American Workplaces

Janet Ainsworth

Seattle University, United States of America

Keeping it Real or a Whitewash: Dialogue & Review of Reasons for Peremptory Strikes

Mel Greenlee

California Appellate Project, United States of America

Definitions of anti-semitism within the EU: a case of legilinguistic lobbying

Susan Blackwell¹ and Willem Meijs²

¹University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Language Consultancy Desk, Birmingham, UK

Of course, legal drafters should avoid intensifiers. Blah, blah, blah!

Edward Finegan

University of Southern California, United States of America

The cultural defense as courtroom drama: The interactional construction of sameness and difference in criminal trial discourse

Sigurd D'hondt

Ghent University, Belgium

Theatricks on trial: the intertextual construction of legal cases

Katrijn Maryns

Gent University, Belgium

Reported speech in monologues by prosecutor and defence lawyer in the courtroom

Petra Wilma Jolanda Sneijder

Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands, The

Rethinking Jury Instructions: Fact-Finding v. Legal Theory?

Bethany K. Dumas

The University of Tennessee, United States of America

Plagiarism of the greatest ever theory or just simultaneous discovery of the theory of evolution?

David Woolls¹ and David Hallmark²

¹CFL Software Limited, United Kingdom; ²Hallmarks Solictors, United Kingdom

When News becomes a Forensic Issue

Rui Manuel Sousa Silva¹, Belinda Maia² and Tim Grant¹

¹Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, United Kingdom; ²Universidade do Porto & CLUP, Portugal

20,000 Ways Not to Do Authorship Attribution -- and a Few that Work

Patrick Juola

Duquesne University, United States of America

Is individual variation the neglected step-sibling in authorship analysis?

John Gabriel Olsson

Forensic Linguistics Institute, United Kingdom

"Oddness" in Suicide Notes

Jess Jann Shapero

The University of Birmingham, U.K., United Kingdom

A Strategy for Deception Detection: Collective Cues to Deception in Written Text

Isabel Carlota Picornell

Aston University, United Kingdom

Acquitted: Mentally Unstable

Matthew Robert Baldock and Tim Grant

Centre of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, United Kingdom

Error production strategies for deception purposes

Eilika Fobbe

University of Goettingen, Germany

Evidentiality and the construction of proff in crimes of word: calumny, slander and prejudice

Valda de Oliveira Fagundes⁰¹ and Mónica G. Zoppi Fontana⁰²

¹Unicamp, Brazil; ²Unicamp, Brazil

Post-Penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony

Susan Lynn Ehrlich

York University, Toronto, Canada

Crtiteria for Judging the faithfulness of Records of Trials--- from the Point of View of Records of Civil Trials

Suzhen Liu and Feng Ge

Northwest University of Politics & Law, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Construction and Deconstruction in Court Judgments

Le Cheng

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. - China

Between confrontational monologue and rational dialogue:

Liping Zhang

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, Peoples Republic of

A Means for Clarifying the Subtlety of Lawyers' Language

Sol Azuelos-Atias

University of Haifa, Israel

Three 19th-Century Trial Manuals: Exploring the Discursive Proto-Culture of Anglo-American Trial Advocacy

Philip Gaines

Montana State University, United States of America

Scripting in non-emergency telephone calls to the police

Frances Eileen Rock

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Accuracy and predictor variables of listeners’ identification of male speaker body size, age, and ethnicity

Jae Parker Heiner and Wendy Baker

Brigham Young University, United States of America

Police Discourse Around Domestic Violence

Nick Lynn¹ and Susan Lea²

¹University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; ²University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

Why are contracts in English so resistant to Plain language drafting?

Christopher Williams

University of Foggia, Italy

“Including but not limited to” everything in the universe? Interpreting the extent of lists in common law agreements

Víctor Manuel González Ruiz

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

On some features of supranational statutory texts in unifying Europe

Diana Dimitrova Yankova

New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

The effect of language contact on a speaker’s idiolect: variation in apparent and real time.

Núria Gavaldà

Unversitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Index of Idiolectal Similitude (IIS) for the phonological module of Mexican Spanish

Fernanda López Escobedo

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Index of Idiolectal Similitude for the phonological module of Catalan: apparent and real time revisited

Jordi Cicres

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Spain

The Pragmatics of Courtroom Discourse: Saving One’s Face in the Witness Box

Jan Chovanec

Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Does ‘adversarial’ mean ‘impolite’ in the courtroom? A diachronic exploration of face-threatening-acts

Dawn Elizabeth Archer

University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

Mitigation as a Stance-marking Strategy in Courtroom

SHENG-HSIU CHIU¹ and LILY I-WEN SU²

¹National Taiwan University, TAIWAN; ²National Taiwan University, TAIWAN

Inter-ethnic discourse over indigenous rights to autonomous administration of justice in highland Ecuador: constructing and interrupting Quichua narratives”

Susan Berk-Seligson

Vanderbilt University, United States of America

The Koori Court revisited: a Review of Cultural and Language Awareness in the Administration of Justice

Natalie Alison Stroud

Monash University, Australia

SUPPORTING JUSTICE REFORM IN JAMAICA THROUGH LANGUAGE POLICY CHANGE

Celia Nadine Blake

University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Legal translation problems versus legal language features

Aleksandra Matulewska

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Reconstructing Reality in Legal Source Texts

Rong Yi-yu

Chongqing Medical University, China, Peoples Republic of

Legal translator training: knowledge-based approach to terminology for inverse translation purposes

Lucja Biel

Institute of English, University of Gdansk, Poland

A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing- True or False? Teaching Non-academic Forensic Linguistics in the Workplace

Ann Maria Ellis

St Helens College, United Kingdom

Implementing the “Guidelines for the Use of Language Analysis” when determining national or regional origin in asylum cases

Anna M. de Graaf, Maaike Verrips and Carolien van den Hazelkamp

De Taalstudio, Netherlands, The

Setting Standards for Research In Forensic Linguistic Identification

Lawrence Solan

Brooklyn Law School, United States of America

A Corpus Analysis of Linguistic Communication between Lay and Professional Judges in Japan

Syugo Hotta¹, Masahiro Fujita² and Junsaku Nakamura³

¹Meiji University; ²National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; ³Ritsumeikan University

The Unequal Encounter between the Cross-Examiner and the Witness in a Judicial Cross-Examination: The case of Goldenberg Commission of Enquiry in Kenya.

Ogone John Obiero

Leipzig University, Germany

Homeless Court in Santa Monica, California

Gillian Grebler

Santa Monica Community College, United States of America

Assessments in family mediation interaction

Paulo Cortes Gago

Federal University at Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Spectral characteristics of sounds as predictors of speech volume level

Anja Geumann

Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

The variations of F0, F1 and F2: examples in the Spanish language of Chile

CLAUDIA ROSAS¹ and JORGE SOMMERHOFF²

¹INSTITUTO DE LINGÜISTICA Y LITERATURA/ UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE (CHILE); ²INSTITUTO DE ACÚSTICA/ UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE (CHILE)

Analysis of Yoruba tones and double consonants for forensic speaker identification purposes

Augustine Agwuele

Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. USA, United States of America

Forensic Narrative Revisited: Category, Structure, Inequality

Chris Heffer

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Forensic applications of discourse marker analysis

Robert Andrew Leonard

Hofstra University Forensic Linguistics Project, United States of America

Membership Category Terms in Court Discourse about Same-Sex Marriage

Karen Tracy and Robert T. Craig

University of Colorado, United States of America

Rise and fall of a speech act sanction: Apologizing in German juvenile criminal justice

Gabriele Klocke

University of Regensburg, Germany

Performativity, Technology and Judicial Activity: Opening French Courtroom Hearings at a Distance by Videoconference

Christian LICOPPE¹ and Laurence DUMOULIN²

¹Telecom Paristech, France; ²ISP6GAPP, ENS Cachan, France

Humor in the adversarial courtroom

Noraini Ibrahim and Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

Presuppositions in Court Examinations

Ying-long Zheng

Zhejiang Gongshang University, China, Peoples Republic of

The Effect of Narrativisation on the Comprehension of Jury Instructions

Sally Elizabeth Nelson

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Clarity in Death Penalty Jury Instructions: Ensuring Justice by Explaining the Law to Non-Lawyers

Joseph Devney

Devney Linguistic Consulting, United States of America

Asking jurors to do the impossible

Peter Tiersma

Loyola Law School, United States of America

Identifying effective question strategies within police investigative interviews

Andy Griffiths^1,2

¹Sussex Police, United Kingdom; ²University of Portsmouth

"I know it sounds daft but": The effect of the tape on the interaction in police interviews

Elisabeth Kate Carter

University of Essex, United Kingdom

Language Policy, Language Choice and Language Alternation in Conflict Resolution: Comparing Adversarial and Arbitral Discourse in Multilingual Malaysia.

Richard Powell¹ and Azirah Hashim²

¹Nihon University, Japan; ²Malaya University, Malaysia

Exploring issues in “faking” or “malingering” language proficiency by suspects

Margaret van Naerssen

Immaculata University, United States of America

The impact of the Literacy/ Illiteracy parameter on Moroccan criminal trials.

Fatima-Zahra Lamrani

Mohamed V University,Rabat, Morocco

I never said that! The problem of translated records of interpreted police interviews with suspects

Krzysztof Kredens

Aston University, United Kingdom

Propositional Density in Authorship Analysis: Automated vs. Manual Measurement

G. Burns Cooper

University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States of America

Linguistic Style Matching in Crisis Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of Suicidal and Surrender Outcomes

Randall Rogan

Wake Forest University, United States of America

‘Recent Trends in Forensic Linguistics – Avoiding the Observer’s Paradox and Formulating Logical Conclusions’

Ton Broeders

Maastricht University and Leiden University, Netherlands, The