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Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Courtroom

ISBN: 978-0-631-20153-3

June 1996

Wiley-Blackwell

240 pages

Description

Language Crimes tells the story of some of the remarkable criminal court cases in which Roger Shuy has served as a consultant or expert witness. These intriguing cases show how linguistic analysis can help the courts unravel the ambiguities of taped conversations used in evidence.

About the Author
Roger W. Shuy is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. In the past decade he has been consulted in over 200 criminal and civil law cases and has testified as an expert witness in 35 trials. He is former President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.
Features
* Gives a unique insight into some remarkable legal cases.
* The first accessible book on the use of linguistic evidence in court.