36.3941, Books: Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Kaschula, Ralarala, Mabasso, Docrat, Kondowe, and Svongoro (2025)

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Date: 18-Dec-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Kaschula, Ralarala, Mabasso, Docrat, Kondowe, and Svongoro (2025)


Title: Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa
Subtitle: Origins, Progress, and Prospects
Series Title: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/forensic-linguistics-southern-africa-origins-progress-and-prospects?format=HB&isbn=9781009705202

Author(s): Russell H. Kaschula; Monwabisi K. Ralarala; Eliseu Mabasso;
Zakeera Docrat; Wellman Kondowe; Paul Svongoro

Hardback ISBN:  9781009705202 Pages:  84 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009705202 Pages:  84 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009705202 Pages:  84 Price: U.S. $ 70.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009705165 Pages:  84 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009705165 Pages:  84 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009705165 Pages:  84 Price: U.S. $ 23.00

Abstract:

This Element introduces the study of forensic linguistics,
particularly in southern Africa, but also in Africa more generally. In
the past six decades, there has been clear evidence that the
discipline of forensic linguistics is, or was, unknown to general
linguists, legal linguists, and applied linguists on the African
continent. Now, however, the situation is rapidly changing, with
forensic linguistics studies gaining momentum in various parts of
Africa. In this Element the authors introduce the topic, define the
discipline, address the language of record issue in southern Africa,
as well as critically debate the state of court interpreting and
translation of documentation into African languages, address police
interviewing techniques, while also looking at possible future
developments in the discipline of forensic linguistics. This title is
also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Written In: English (eng)



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