What is it about?
This is a review of Coulthard, Johnson and Wright's 2017 book "Language as Evidence. An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics". It lays out the contents of the book and discusses it in the context of the current status of the field of forensic linguistics.
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The review provides an accessible and useful overview of the contents of Language as Evidence. An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics. It offers potential readers as basis for determining whether anf how they should read this book.
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Writing this review was a very welcome assignment for me since I have used the first edition for a course in forensic linguistics before, and wanted to know the changes the authors had decided to make for this second edition. I approve of the increased focus on methodology, although a full understanding of the many linguistic theories and approaches in chapter 2 requires a solid foundation in linguistics.
Tanya Karoli Christensen
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson and David Wright. 2017.An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics. Language in Evidence, Language and Dialogue, October 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ld.7.2.09chr.
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