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Johnson & Coulthard 1. Introduction Current Debates in ForensicLinguistics SECTION I -- THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW AND THE LEGAL PROCESS 1.1Legal LanguageHolt and Johnson 2. Legal Talk. Sociopragmatic aspects of legaltalk: police interviews and trial discourse. Bhatia 3. Legal Writing:Specificity Specification in legislative writing: issues of accessibility,transparency, power and control. Stygall 4. Legal Writing:Complexity Complexdocuments; average and not-so-average readers. Finegan 5. Legal Writing:Attitude and Emphasis Corpus linguistic approaches to 'legal language':adverbial expression of attitude and emphasis in supreme court opinions.Cao6. Legal Translation Translating legal language 1.2 Participants in PoliceInvestigations, Interviewing and Interrogation Drew and Walker 7. Citizens'Emergency Calls Requesting assistance in calls to the police. Ainsworth 8.Miranda Rights Curtailing coercion in police interrogation: the failedpromise of Miranda v. Arizona. Rock 9. Witnesses and Suspects in InterviewsCollecting oral evidence: police, the public and the written word. Benneworth10. Sexual Offences Negotiating paedophilia in the investigative interview:the construction of sexual offences against children. Stokoe and Edwards 11.Lawyers in Interviews "I advise you not to answer that question":Conversationanalysis, legal interaction and the analysis of lawyers' turns in policeinterrogations of suspects. Haworth 12. Police Interviews in the JudicialProcess Interviews as Evidence 1.3 Courtroom Genres Archer 13. The HistoricalCourtroom A diachronic perspective on English courtroom practice. Heffer 14.Narrative in the Trial Constructing crime stories in court. Felton-Rosulek15. Prosecution and Defence Closing Speeches Creation of contrasting closingarguments. Nicholson 16. Sentencing Convicted Murderers Convicted murderers'allocutions or leniency pleas at sentencing hearings. 1.4 Lay Participants inthe Judicial Process Tiersma 17. Instructions to Jurors RedraftingCalifornia's jury instructions. Ehrlich 18. Rape Victims The discourse ofrape trials. Greenlee 19. Youth and Gangs facing Experts Sociolinguisticissues in gang-related prosecutions: homies, hearsay and expert standards.Aldridge 20. Vulnerable Witnesses Vulnerable witnesses in the CriminalJustice System. Grebler 21. False Confessors A jihadi heart and mind?Strategic repackaging of a possibly false confession in an anti-terrorismtrial in California. TkaAiukova + web 22. Representing OneselfCross-examination questioning: lay people as cross-examiners SECTION II - TheLinguist as Expert in Legal Processes 2.1 Expert and Process Butters 23.Trademark Linguistics Trademarks: language that one owns. Dumas 24. ConsumerProduct Warnings Consumer product warnings: composition, identification andassessment of adequacy. Jessen 25. The Forensic Phonetician Forensic speakeridentification by experts.Solan 26. The Forensic Linguist The Expert LinguistMeets the Adversarial System 2.2 Multilingualism in Legal Contexts Eades 27.Nationality Claims Language analysis and asylum cases. English 28. Non-NativeSpeakers in Detention Assessing non-native speaking detainees' Englishlanguage proficiency. Hale 29. Court Interpreting The need to raise the bar.Court interpreters as specialised experts. Kredens and Morris 30.Interpreting Outside the Courtroom 'A Shattered Mirror?' Interpreting inlegal contexts outside the courtrooom. 2.3 Authorship and Opinion Coulthard31. Experts and Opinions In my opinion McMenamin 32. Forensic StylisticsTheory and practice of forensic stylistics. Grant 33. Text MessagingForensics Txt 4n6: idiolect free authorship analysis. Coulthard, Johnson, 34.Plagiarism Kredens and Woolls Four Forensic Linguists' responses to suspectedplagiarism. SECTION III - New debates and new directions Matoesian 35.Multimodality and Forensic Linguistics Multimodal aspects of victim'snarrative in direct examination. Shuy 36. Terrorism and Forensic LinguisticsLinguistics and terrorism cases. Woolls 37. Computational ForensicLinguistics Searching for similarity in large specialised corpora Gray 38.The Future for Forensic Linguists in the Courtroom Cross-culturalcommunication Coulthard & Johnson 39. Concluding Remarks Future Directionsin Forensic Linguistics