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Wow, Tosh! This is great! Thank you.

Natasha

Tosh Tachino wrote:
> Natasha,
>
> I've come across quite a few studies in legal discourses when I was doing the
> lit. review for my dissertation (which analyzes transcripts and the final report
> from a public inquiry in Canada), but as far as I can tell, the ESP in legal
> discourses and forensic linguistics are still emerging, and I am hesitant about
> suggesting established methods. I ended up using citation analysis (which comes
> from Swales as well as other scholars in information science and library science).
>
> Having said that, there are some work in applied linguistics and in composition
> that I found helpful:
>
> Conley, J. M., & O'Barr, W. M. (1990). Rules versus relationships.Chicago:
> University of: Chicago Press.
>
> Cotterill, J. (2002). Language in the legal process.Hounmills, Basingstoke,
> Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
>
> Gibbons, J. (2003). Forensic linguistics: An introduction to language in the
> justice system.Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
>
> Goodrich, P. (1987). Legal discourse: Studies in linguistics, rhetoric and legal
> analysis.London: Macmillan.
>
> Kurzon, D. (1986). It is hereby performed--: Explorations in legalspeech acts.
> Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
>
>
> Kurzon, D. (1997). 'Legal language': Varieties, genres, registers, discourses.
> International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(2), 119-139.
>
> Levi, J. N. (1993). Evaluating jury comprehension of illinois capital-sentencing
> instructions. American Speech, 68(1), 20-49.
> Matson, J. V. (1999). Effective expert witnessing (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press.
>
> O'Barr, W. M. (1982). Linguistic evidence: Language, power, and strategy in the
> courtroom.New York: Academic Press.
>
> Philips, S. U. (1998). Ideology in the language of judges. New York: Oxford
> University Press.
>
> Renoe, C. E. (1996). Seeing is believing? Expert testimony and the construction
> of interpretive authority in an American trial. International Journal for the
> Semiotics of Law, 9(2), 115 - 137.
>
> Robinson, M. (2003). Language and the law: Proceedings of a conference.Buffalo,
> N.Y.: W.S. Hein.
>
> Rasmussen, R. K. (1995) Why linguitics? Washington University Law Quarterly,
> 73(3), 1047-56. (Retrieved from Lexis Nexis)
>
> Schuetz, J. E. (1999). Final summation: Narratives in contrast. In J. E. Schuetz
> & L. S. Lilley (Eds.), The O.J. Simpson trials: Rhetoric, media, and the law
> (pp. 100-121). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
>
> Shuy, R. (1990). Warning labels: Language, law, and comprehensibility. American
> Speech, 65(4), 291-303.
>
> Shuy, R. W. (2003). Discourse analysis in the legal context. In D. Schiffrin, D.
> Tannen & H. E. Hamilton (Eds.), The handbook of discourse analysis (pp.
> 437-452). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
>
> Shuy, R. W. (2006). Linguistics in the courtroom: A practical guide. New York:
> Oxford University Press.
>
> Stygall, G. (2002). Narrative discourse analysis and legal texts. In E. Barton &
> G. Stygall (Eds.), Discourse studies in composition (pp. 257-282). Creskill,
> N.J.: Hampton.
>
> I came across some articles/books in Canadan legal system, but none of them was
> in linguistics. I'd be happy to share these if you are interested.
>
> _____________________________________
> Tosh Tachino, M.A., B.A. Honors
> Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University
> Rhetoric and Professional Communication
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> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tosh/
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