About this book
Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and beyond is the third volume in a series of books designed to contribute and respond to growing interest in forensic linguistics or language and the law on the African continent. Drawing mostly on contexts where traditional African laws and Western laws are practised side-by-side, and where there are discontinuities between local knowledge systems, belief systems and language practices on the one hand, and official languages of law discourse, conceptualisation and jurisprudence documentation on the other, the chapters in this volume problematise, among other issues, the mediation practices (or lack thereof) of language and legal processes, discourse strategies and complexities in (mis)interpretations in second language court contexts and the miscarriage of justice that these may entail.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Series foreword
- Acknowledgements
- About the editors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1 - Researching police and asylum investigative interviewing
- Part 2 - Language practice and the legal process
- Part 3 - Language as evidence
- Part 4 - Forensic linguisticevidence
- Part 5 - Language, traditional courts and access to justice
- Part 6 - Language, law and legislation
- About the contributors
- INDEX