12.1665, Sum: Resources for Language and the Law

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Date:  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:34:04 -0400
From:  Susana Sotillo IMAP <sotillos at mail.montclair.edu>
Subject:  Resources for Language and the Law

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Date:  Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:34:04 -0400
From:  Susana Sotillo IMAP <sotillos at mail.montclair.edu>
Subject:  Resources for Language and the Law

I posted a query to the Linguist List back in May asking for scholarly
references and suggestions for an undergraduate course in Language & the
Law.

I would like to thank those who responded for their most thoughtful
suggestions and generosity in sharing their bibliographies and course
descriptions with me.  I am overwhelmed.  Here is a summary that other
Linguist List members may find extremely helpful:

Subject:  Language and the Law

1.  From Gerald McMenamin  <geraldm at csufresno.edu>

Thank you very much for a very impressive bibliography.  I am only
reproducing parts of it because of space limitations.  Those who
want the complete bibliography, please e-mail Dr. McMenamim at
<geraldm at csufresno.edu>.

Web Resources:

Forensic Linguistics at the University of Birmingham:
http://www.clg.bham.ac.uk/forensic/index.html/

Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech, Language and
the Law: http://www.bham.ac.uk/forensiclinguistics/
International Association of Applied Linguistics
http://www.aila.ac/
International Association of Forensic Linguistics
http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/forensic/IAFL/
International Association of Forensic Linguists: Bibliography
http://www.iafl.org
International Association for Forensic Phonetics
http://www.iafp.net/
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue international de
sémiotique juridique
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome/0952-8059/
Language in the Judicial Process, electronic newsletter of language and
law (Bethany Dumas)
http://www.outreach.utk.edu/ljp/
Linguist List Search Engine for Linguistics and Languages

http://linguistlist.org/7tones.html/
Linguist List Archive of Lists on Linguistics and Languages
http://linguistlist.org/multilist/searchall.html/

Plain Language - USA
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
Plain Language - UK
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

P. M. Tiersma Website
http://www.tiersma.com/

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS

Bryant, M.  English in the Law Courts: The Part that Articles,
Prepositions and
Conjunctions Play in Legal Decisions, Frederick Ungar, New York, 1930
and 1962.

Conley, J. M. and O'Barr, W. M.  Just Words: Law, Language, and Power,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998.

Crystal, D.  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

Crystal, D.  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1987.

Danet, B.  "Language in the legal process," Law & Society Review,
14:3:445-564, 1980.

Eades, D.  "Forensic linguistics in Australia: an overview," Forensic
Linguistics, 1:2:113-132, 1994.

Eades, D.  Language in Evidence: Issues Confronting Aboriginal and
Multicultural Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney,
1995.

Gibbons, J., Ed..  Language and the Law, Longman, New York, 1994.

Gibbons, J.  "Applied linguistics in court," Applied Linguistics,
11:3:229-237, 1990.

Kniffka, H.  Texte zu Theorie und Praxis forensischer Linguistik, Max
Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1990.

Kniffka, H., S. Blackwell, and Coulthard, M., Eds.  Recent Developments
in Forensic Linguistics, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1996.

Lakoff, R. T.  Talking Power: The Politics of Language in Our Lives,
Basic Books, New York, 1990.

Levi, J. N.  Language and Law: a Bibliographic Guide to Social Science
Research in the USA, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, and American
Bar Association, Washington, D.C., Teaching Resource Bulletin No. 4,
1994a.

Levi, J. N.  "Language as evidence: The linguist as expert witness in
North American courts," Forensic Linguistics, 1:1:1-26, 1994b.

Levi, J. N. and Graffam Walker, A., Eds.  Language in the Judicial
Process, Plenum Press, New York, 1990.

Levi, J. N.  Linguistics, Language, and Law: A Topical Bibliography,
Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, 1982.

Melinkoff, D.  The Language of the Law, Little Brown, Boston, 1963.

Murphy, H. F.  "Linguistics and law: An overview of forensic
linguistics," Journal of Law, Intellectual Property, and Technology, 1:,

1998.

O'Barr, W.  Linguistic Evidence, Language, Power and Strategy in the
Courtroom, Academic Press, New York, 1982.

Rieber, R. W. and Stewart, W. A., Eds.  The Language Scientist as Expert
in the Legal Setting, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, v. 606,
New York, 1990.

Shuy, R. W.  "Language and the law," Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics, 7:50-63, 1986.

Shuy, R. W.  Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in
the Courtroom, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.

Shuy, R. W.  "Linguistics in other professions," Annual Review of
Anthropology, 13:419-445, 1984.

Shuy, R. W.  The Language of Confessions, Interrogation and Deception,
Sage Publications, Los Angeles, 1998.

Tiersma, P. M.  "Linguistic issues in law," Language 69:1:113-135, 1993.

Wetter, J. G.  The Styles of Appellate Judicial Opinions, A. W. Sythoff,
Leyden, 1960.

2. From Judith Levi <j-levi at northwestern.edu>

Judith Levi, a professor at Northwestern, was extremely generous.  She
shared the following with me:

A.  Language and Law:  A Bibliographic Guide to Social Science Research
in the USA (ABA, 1994).  "There are 1350 entries, arranged according to
topic.  That will give you enough for ten courses' worth of materials."

B.  "There *is* no textbook on the subject that I know of...  However,
you might want to consider one or more of these quite different options
as texts:

Language in the Judicial Process (1990), ed. by myself and Anne Graffam
Walker (Plenum)  -- 1st ever collection of articles on language and law
focusing on
social science research.

Legal Language (1999) by Peter Tiersma (who has a Ph.D. in linguistics
but is a law prof) (U Chicago Press).

Mellinkoff, David (1963) "The Language of the Law" (a classic by a law
professor who also wrote "Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense")

There are other books available (i.e., beyond articles) but your choice
would depend on what you want to cover (e.g., forensic linguistics, or
language minorities, legal drafting, or legal culture, etc.)  You can
find
numerous suggestions in the Introduction section of my bibliography
(q.v.)"

C.  Web resources.   Judith suggested sending a query to the Forensic
Linguistics list:
http://www-clg.bham.ac.uk/forensic/index.html : The Forensic Linguistics
home page of the U of Birmingham (UK) -- a superb resource.
http://www.outreach.utk.edu/ljp/links/links.html  - a US page called
"Language in the Judicial Process" (after our book).

D.  For Cyberlaw references:  Bethany Dumas, the
linguist/JD/consultant/English prof who maintains the LJP site. (
<dumasb at utk.edu>)

E.  Dr. Levi attached her Syllabi as Word Files.  These syllabi present
a broad survey of topics.  Those wishing to obtain copies of these
syllabi, please e-mail Dr. Levi at
j-levi at northwestern.edu

3.  From Nancy Frishberg <nancyf at fishbird.com> and Georgina Heydon
<Georgina.Heydon at arts.monash.edu.au>

FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Forensic Linguistics Home Page: http://www-clg.bham.ac.uk/forensic

Contact Sue Blackwell at the International Association of Forensic
Linguistics (IAFL) at the University of Birmingham,
<S.A.Blackwell at BHAM.AC.UK>.

 4.  From France <mugler_f at usp.ac.fj>

"From a sociolinguistic standpoint, two interesting aspects of this are
1. research into cross-cultural 'ways of speaking' and possible
miscommunication; and 2. the asymetrical talk that typically takes place
in institutional settings where there is  a clear  power
differential between speakers. Put  the two together  and,bang!,
disaster."

An example of applied (or 'forensic') linguistics in law  - that takes
into account both of the above - is the work  of Diana Eades with
Aboriginal Australians in law courts.

Once again, thank you so much for your help!

Susana M. Sotillo (Sotillos at mail.montclair.edu)

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