IAFL: The International Association of Forensic Linguists

Bibliography

Welcome to the bibliography of the IAFL. This is intended to be a resource for both professionals and students researching in forensic linguistics.

• Acknowledgments
  
• Scope
  
• Usage
  
  
• SEARCH by author, title, etc.
  
  
• Index to Major Categories
  
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• Link to list of publishers
  

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Scope

This bibliography is intended to cover all notable references about forensic linguistics. The latter is defined broadly, rather than narrowly, so that some references which are related to the field but are not strictly speaking 'forensic' or 'linguistic' are nevertheless included.

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Usage

There are several ways to use this bibliography... You can search by author, title, etc. or view by category.

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Index to Major Categories

The references have been categorised according to various subject areas which have been popular with authors of forensic linguistic texts. The resulting categories are thus a mixture of terms from several different viewpoints such as: legal document, legal process, type of crime or offence, type of human participant, linguistic discipline, linguistic sub-discipline, and linguistic phenomenon.

01.00.00. Discourse (General)
02.00.00. Courtroom Discourse
03.00.00. Readability/Comprehensibility
04.00.00. Authorship Attribution - Written language
05.00.00. Authorship Attribution - Spoken language
06.00.00. Language Variation
07.00.00. Transcription
08.00.00. Interpreting & Sight Translation
09.00.00. Translation (proper)
10.00.00. Expert Evidence
11.00.00. Children
12.00.00. Forensic Phonetics
13.00.00. Forensic Statistics
14.00.00. Handwriting
15.00.00. Technology
16.00.00. Historical Aspects
17.00.00. Overviews and Collections
18.00.00. Other Bibliographies
19.00.00. Miscellaneous
20.00.00. Reviews

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Journals

U.K. Court Cases

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All Categories

01.00.00. Discourse (General)
   01.01.00. methods
   01.02.00. theories
   01.03.00. forensic linguistics
   01.04.00. forensic stylistics
   01.05.00. communicative style
   01.06.00. forensic discourse analysis
   01.07.00. forensic sociolinguistics
   01.08.00. forensic integrational linguistics
   01.09.00. forensic sign linguistics
   01.10.00. semiotics
   01.11.00. syntax
   01.12.00. semantics
   01.13.00. pragmatics
   01.14.00. psycholinguistics
   01.15.00. legal language
   01.16.00. narrative
   01.17.00. ambiguity
   01.18.00. questions
   01.19.00. power issues
   01.20.00. police interviews/interrogation
   01.21.00. lawyer-client
   01.22.00. lawyer-lawyer

02.00.00. Courtroom Discourse
   02.01.00. trial court
   02.02.00. appellate court
   02.03.00. jury vetting
   02.04.00. expert vetting
   02.05.00. police
   02.06.00. non-expert witnesses
   02.07.00. lawyers' arguments
      02.07.01. defence
      02.07.02. prosecution
   02.08.00. judges
   02.09.00. use of metaphor
   02.10.00. gender issues
   02.11.00. bilingual issues
   02.12.00. bimodal issues
   02.13.00. libel/slander

03.00.00. Readability/Comprehensibility
   03.01.00. statutes & statutory interpretation
   03.02.00. legal documents
   03.03.00. the police caution issued to suspects
   03.04.00. jury instructions
   03.05.00. restraining orders
   03.06.00. contracts/consent forms
      03.06.01. government (tax, social security,...)
      03.06.02. medical
   03.07.00. punctuation

04.00.00. Authorship Attribution - Written language
   04.01.00. police statements
   04.02.00. alleged confessions
   04.03.00. plagiarism
   04.04.00. suicide notes
   04.05.00. written threats/threatening letters
   04.06.00. disputed wills

05.00.00. Authorship Attribution - Spoken language
   05.01.00. speaker identification/elimination
   05.02.00. utterance interpretation/identification

06.00.00. Language Variation
   06.01.00. non-standard varieties
   06.02.00. linguistic minorities
   06.03.00. cross-cultural (mis)communication

07.00.00. Transcription
   07.01.00. "verbatim"
   07.02.00. dictation

08.00.00. Interpreting & Sight Translation
   08.01.00. crime scene
   08.02.00. police station
   08.03.00. courtroom interpreting
   08.04.00. courtroom reporting
   08.05.00. penal institution
   08.06.00. training & accreditation
   08.07.00. legal texts

09.00.00. Translation (proper)
   09.01.00. theories

10.00.00. Expert Evidence
   10.01.00. the use of linguistic evidence in court
   10.02.00. acceptance of linguistic evidence
      10.02.01. by lawyers
      10.02.02. by judges
   10.03.00. expert witnesses/testifiers
   10.04.00. communication between experts & others
   10.05.00. reports for use in court cases
   10.06.00. ethics
   10.07.00. accreditation

11.00.00. Children
   11.01.00. as interpreters
   11.02.00. as witnesses
      11.02.01. preparation & interviewing
      11.02.02. testimonial aspects
   11.03.00. vetting

12.00.00. Forensic Phonetics
   12.01.00. acoustic and auditory analysis
   12.02.00. speaker identification
      12.02.01. voice disguise
      12.02.02. foreign language speakers
      12.02.03. telephone threats
      12.02.04. lay ear witnesses
   12.03.00. speaker profiling
   12.04.00. utterance interpretation/identification
      12.04.01. contested utterances
   12.05.00. technology
      12.05.01. computer software
      12.05.02. black box recorders
   12.06.00. authenticating audio recordings
   12.07.00. enhancing tape recordings

13.00.00. Forensic Statistics

14.00.00. Handwriting

15.00.00. Technology
   15.01.00. computer software
   15.02.00. corpora

16.00.00. Historical Aspects
   16.01.00. Future Aspects

17.00.00. Overviews and Collections
   17.01.00. reports on conferences, etc.

18.00.00. Other Bibliographies

19.00.00. Miscellaneous

20.00.00. Reviews

Other Bibliography Web sites

Journals

U.K. Court Cases

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Other Bibliography Web sites

Davis, Tom. Handwriting.

Dumas, Bethany. (Ed.) (n.d.). L.J.P. Current Citations.

Grant, Tim. (Mostly) Authorship Attribution.

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Journals

General
Court Interpreting

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Journals - General

Aboriginal Law Bulletin

American Law Review (ALR)

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics

Australian Aboriginal Studies

Australian Journal of Law and Society

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Behavoiural Sciences and the Law

Bulletin of the International Association for the Semiotics of Law

Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Clarity

Columbia Journal of Law and Society

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

Deutsche Sprache

Discourse and Society: An International Journal for the Study of Discourse and Communication in their Social, Political amd Cultural Contexts

Ethnos

Expert Evidence: The International Digest of Human Behavior Science and Law.
David Carson and Ray Bull (Eds.) (from Law and Psychology respectively).
Chichester, West Susswex, PO 20 7DU (77 Birdham Road): SLE Publications Ltd. ISSN 0965-3643.

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (formerly Forensic Linguistics)
This is also on the IAFP site

Forensic Reports

GAL-Bulletin

Graven Images

International Criminal Justice Review

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law [U.K.]
c/o Deborah Charles Publications or Bernard Jackson

International Journal of Applied Linguistics

International Journal of Law and Society
[Formerly: Brithish Journal of Law and Society]

International Journal of the Sociology of Law

Interpreting
c/o Barbara Moser

Journal of Interpretation

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Journal of Law and Society

Journal of Legal Studies

Journal of Pragmatics

Judicature
[Formerly: Journal of the American Judicature Society]

Judicial Officers Bulletin

Jurimetrics Journal

Justice System Journal

Kriminalistik

Kriminalistik und forensische Wissenschaften

Language and Communication

Language in Society

Language in the Judicial Process
c/o Bethany Dumas

Law and Contemporary Problems

Law and Critique: A Journal of Critical Legal Studies [U.K.]

Law and Human Behaviour

Law and Policy Review

Law and Psychology Review

Law and Social Identity

Law and Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation

Law and Social Problems

Law and Society Review: The Journal of the Law and Society Association

Law in Context

Lebende Sprachen

Legal Services Bulletin

Legal Studies Forum

Linguistische Berichte

New York University Review of Law and Social Change

Philippine Sociological Review

Polemic

Proteus: Newsletter of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators

Research in Law and Sociology

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal

Southern African Journal of African Languages

Tennessee Law Review

Terminologie & Traduction

TermNet News: Journal for international cooperation in terminology

Texas Law Review

The Journal of the Law Institute of Victoria

The Judicial Review

The Translator
c/o Mona Baker

Virginia Journal of Social Policy

Washington University Law Quarterly

William & Mary Law Review

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
[Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario]

Wisconsin Law Review

Yale Law Journal

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Journals - Court Interpreting

Journals which publish articles on court interpreting. Most are refereed.

American Law Review (ALR)

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (formerly Forensic Linguistics)
This is also on the IAFP site

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
c/o Deborah Charles Publications or Bernard Jackson

Interpreting
c/o Barbara Moser

Language in the Judicial Process
c/o Bethany Dumas

The Translator
c/o Mona Baker

Virginia Journal of Social Policy

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U.K. Court Cases

Authorship Attribution

CUSUM
The Queen vs. Thomas McCrossen (Court of Appeal, London 1991).
The Queen vs. Frank Beck (Leicester Crown Court 1992).
The Queen vs. Joseph Nelson-Wilson (London 1992).
The Queen vs. Peter Mitchell (Court of Appeal, London 1992/1993).
The Queen vs. James McGee (Belfast Crown court 1993).

News

IAFL Conference 2009
We would like to warmly thank the organizers and all those who participated for making our latest biennial conference in Amsterdam such a success. The organization was streamlined and efficient, the plenary talks highly stimulating and there was a very wide variety of interesting talks on offer across a number of parallel sessions. The Amsterdam conference attracted over 180 participants and was probably the most interdisciplinary and multicultural IAFL conference so far.

The International Association of Forensic Linguists' 9th Biennial Conference took place between Monday July 6 and Thursday July 9 2009 at Vrije Universiteit in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Full details of the conference and the programme of papers are available at: http://iafl09.let.vu.nl/.


Future conferences

We are keen to have expressions of interest from anyone who is considering hosting the next Biennial event in 2011. Expressions of interest in that event should be emailed to an Executive Committee member in the first instance.

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