Equinox Publishing

Vol 14, No 1 (2007)

Table of Contents

Articles

Buy Now  Quantifying evidence in forensic authorship analysis Abstract
Tim Grant 1-25
Buy Now  Taboo terms in a sexual abuse criminal trial Abstract
Burns Cooper 27-50
Buy Now  The pragmatic use of gender in Latina women's legal narratives of abuse Abstract
Shonna Trinch 51-83
Buy Now  Linguistic Manipulations in Legal Discourse: Framing questions and ‘smuggling’ information* Abstract
Michelle Aldridge, June Luchjenbroers 85-107
Buy Now  Non-contemporary speech samples: auditory detectability of an 11 year delay and itseffect on automatic speaker identification Abstract
Hermann J. Künzel 109-136

Commentaries/Responses

Buy Now  Position Statement concerning use of impressionistic likelihood terms in forensic speaker comparison cases, with a foreword by Peter French & Philip Harrison Abstract
Peter French, Philip Harrison 137-144

Thesis Abstracts

Free  Forensic automatic speaker recognition using Bayesian interpretation and statistical compensation for mismatched conditions Details PDF
Anil Alexander 145-147
Free  ‘Speak English or what?’ Codeswitching and interpreter use in New York Small Claims Courts Details PDF
Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer 147-150
Free  Examining jurors’ discursive exchanges related to mitigating factors during capital jury deliberations Details PDF
Desiree Cassar 150-154
Free  An acoustic study on disguised voices Details PDF
Cuiling Zhang 154-156

Book Reviews

Free  Diana Yankova (2004) Legal Language Made Simple: Statutory Provisions in English and Bulgarian PDF
Bilyana Martinovski 157-160

Book Notices

Free  Christopher Williams, Tradition and Change in Legal English: VerbalConstructions in Prescriptive Texts.Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 3–03910–644–9 (paperback) PDF
Chris Heffer 161
Free  Katrijn Maryns, The Asylum Speaker: Language in the Belgian Asylum Procedure.Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing. ISBN 1–900650–89–4 (paperback) PDF
Chris Heffer 161
Free  Sanford Schane, Language and the LawLondon: Continuum. ISBN 0–8264–8828–5 (hardback) PDF
Chris Heffer 162