An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence has established itself as the
essential textbook written by leading authorities in this expanding field. The second edition …

Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the
monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of …

Explains and describes the ways that language use in the legal system can create inequality
and disadvantage. It examines the three main areas where the two intersect: the central …

Mercé Tricàs, inglés-casteliano debido a Juan Gabriel López Guix y Jacqueline Minett, y
alemán-castellano de la mano de Anna María Rossell Ibern; o el libro de Pilar Elena …

Whenever native and non-native speakers “employ English in a restricted range of social
and thematic areas”(Gramley & Pätzold, 1992, p. 246), they use it in order to communicate …

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians,
the press and the public through the language they employ, with extensive coverage of key …

At a time when the distinctive quality of the language of the law, which marks it off from
ordinary language and makes it a case apart even in the field of special languages, has …

This book explores the cognitive and communicative processes involved in the use of
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within cross-cultural specialized contexts where non …

Recent work in applied genre analysis (Swales 1981, 1990, Bhatia 1983a, 1993, Dudley-
Evans 1986, Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995) has reiterated the importance of linguistic …

In this paper I first describe some of the main characteristics of written legal English such as
sentence length and the complexity of its sentence structures, repetitiveness, the high …