Language in the Legal Process

ROBERT R. AGNE Department of Communications, University of Colorado, Boulder, USASTAN BERNSTEIN US Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District, New York USASUSAN BERK-SELIGSON Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of PittsburghMALCOLM COULTHARD Professor of English Language and LinguisticsBETHANY K. DUMAS Associate Professor of English and Chair, University of TennesseeDIANA EADES Associate Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of HawaiiDÉBORA DE CARVALHO FIGUEIREDO Lecturer, Faculdades Barddal, Southern BrazilCHRIS HEFFER Lecturer in Linguistics, Nottingham Trent UniversityALISON JOHNSON Lecturer in Linguistics and English Literature, University of Birmingham, UKROSEMARY H. MOEKETSI Assistant Professor, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa, PretoriaSONIA RUSSELL Former;y French-English Interpreter, Kent Police, Facilitation Support Unit, Dover and HM Customs and Excise ROGER W. SHUYDistinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, Georgetown University, USALAWRENCE M. SOLAN Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, USAGAIL STYGALL Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Washington, USAPETER M. TIERSMA Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, USAKAREN TRACY Professor of Communications, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Language in the Legal Process; J.Cotterill PART I: THE LINGUIST IN THE LEGAL PROCESS To Testify or Not to Testify?; R.W.Shuy Whose Voice Is It? Invented and Concealed Dialogue in Written Records of Verbal Evidence Produced by the Police; M.Coulthard Textual Barriers to United States Immigration; G.Stygall The Language and Law of Product Warnings; P.M.Tiersma PART II: THE LANGUAGE OF THE POLICE AND THE POLICE INTERVIEW 'I Just Need to Ask Somebody Some Questions': Sensitivities in Domestic Dispute Calls; K.Tracy & R.R.Agne So...? Pragmatic Implications of So-Prefaced Questions in Formal Police Interviews; A.Johnson 'Three's a Crowd': Shifts in Dynamics in the Interpreted Interview; S.Russell The Miranda Warnings and Linguistic Coercion: The Role of Footing in the Interrogation of a Limited-English Speaking Murder Suspect; S.Berk-Seligson PART III: THE LANGUAGE OF THE COURTROOM I: LAWYERS AND WITNESSES 'Just One More Time...': Change and Continuity in Courtroom Narratives in the Trials of OJ Simpson; J.Cotterill 'Evidence Given in Unequivocal Terms': Gaining Consent of Aboriginal Young People in Court; D.Eades The Clinton Scandal: Some Legal Lessons from Linguistics; L.M.Solan Understanding the Other: A Case of Mis-Interpreting Culture-Specific Utterances at Alternative Dispute Resolution; R.H.Moeketsi PATY IV: THE LANGUAGE OF THE COURTROOM II: JUDGES AND JURIES The Meaning of 'I Go Bankrupt': An Essay in Forensic Linguistics; S.Bernstein 'If You Were Standing in Marks and Spencers': Narrativization and Comprehension in the English Summing-Up; C.Heffer Reasonable Doubt about Reasonable Doubt: Assessing Jury Instruction Adequacy in a Capital Case; B.K.Dumas Discipline and Punishment in the Discourse of Legal Decision on Rape Trials; D.de C.Figueiredo Index

'Cotterill's recent collection reminds us at every turn that the law is neither monolithic nor impersonal. It is made up of a number of strange (and sometimes beautiful) procedures and staffed by a heady mix of individuals who are in the final measure, human...The problems raised are not only problems for linguists and lawyers. They demand consideration from anyone who would be considered a member of society.' - Annabelle Mooney, British Association of Applied Linguistics