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 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tosh/ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-