Research Catalog

Title

Linguistics in the courtroom : a practical guide / Roger W. Shuy.

Author

Shuy, Roger W.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xiv, 146 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Roger W. Shuy is a prominent linguist who has applied linguistics to the area of law for over thirty-five years. His book is a practical, how-to guide for both beginning and established linguists who have been called upon in this capacity and who may want to start their own consulting practice." "Step by step, the book deals with issues of how linguists first become and then represent themselves as experts, how they can start and manage the practice of consulting on law cases, address important issues of professional ethics, work most effectively with lawyers, write reports and affidavits strategically, and participate successfully in depositions, direct examinations, and cross examinations at trial."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Forensic linguistics > United States

Genre/Form

Lehrbuch.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (137-141) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First steps -- Starting a practice -- Doing business -- Working with attorneys -- Analyzing the data -- Writing reports -- Being deposed -- Giving testimony in the direct examination -- Cross-examination testimony -- Ethical issues -- Using your experience to write articles or books -- Using your experience to teach courses -- Some useful books for the forensic linguist's library

ISBN

• 9780195306644 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0195306643 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2005040185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library