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Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a
growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the
subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed
at summarizing its applications, often with a focus on a single
aspect of the legal system. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims
to further the discussion by focusing exclusively on how police
interviews are constructed and used to investigate and prosecute
crimes. The first book to focus exclusively on police interview
dialogue, The Discourse of Police Interviews examines leading
debates, approaches, and topics in contemporary police interview
research. Among other topics, the book explores the sociolegal,
psychological, and discursive framework of popular police interview
techniques employed in the United States and the United Kingdom,
such as PEACE and Reid, and the discursive practices of
institutional representatives like police officers and interpreters
that can influence the construction and quality of linguistic
evidence. Together, the contributions situate the police interview
as part of a complex, and multistage, criminal justice process.
Despite the role of discourse in potentially shaping legal
outcomes, the use of linguistic analysis to understand the legal
process is yet to be fully and uniformly embraced, and the book
will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in a variety
of fields, such as linguistic anthropology, interpreting studies,
criminology, law, and sociology.
Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a
growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the
subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed
at summarizing its applications, often with a focus on a single
aspect of the legal system. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims
to further the discussion by focusing exclusively on how police
interviews are constructed and used to investigate and prosecute
crimes. The first book to focus exclusively on police interview
dialogue, The Discourse of Police Interviews examines leading
debates, approaches, and topics in contemporary police interview
research. Among other topics, the book explores the sociolegal,
psychological, and discursive framework of popular police interview
techniques employed in the United States and the United Kingdom,
such as PEACE and Reid, and the discursive practices of
institutional representatives like police officers and interpreters
that can influence the construction and quality of linguistic
evidence. Together, the contributions situate the police interview
as part of a complex, and multistage, criminal justice process.
Despite the role of discourse in potentially shaping legal
outcomes, the use of linguistic analysis to understand the legal
process is yet to be fully and uniformly embraced, and the book
will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in a variety
of fields, such as linguistic anthropology, interpreting studies,
criminology, law, and sociology.
This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal
settings by situating the study of language and law within
contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic
anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The chapters in the collection
explore many of the common occasions when those acting on behalf of
the legal system, such as the police, lawyers and judges, interact
with those coming into contact with the legal system, such as
suspects and witnesses. However the chapters do this work through
the conceptual lens of 'textual travel', or the way that texts move
across space and time and are transformed along the way.
Collectively, notions of textual travel shed new light on the ways
in which texts can influence, and are influenced by, social and
legal life. With contributions from leading experts in language and
law, Legal-Lay Communication explores such 'textual travel' themes
as the mediating role of technologies in the investigatory stages
of the legal process, the centrality of intertextuality in the
legal construction of cases in court, the transformative effects of
recontextualization in processes of judicial decision-making, and
the way that processes of textual travel disturb the apparent
permanence of legal categorization. The book challenges both the
notion of legal text as a static repository of meaning and the very
idea of legal-lay or lay-legal communication.
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