The Linguistics of Crime

The Linguistics of Crime
John Douthwaite, Ulrike Tabbert
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30 Apr 2022 UK
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9781108471008
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Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this book explores the analysis of crime-related language. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and intertextuality, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres, both fictitious (crime novels, and crime in TV, film and music), and in real life (crime reporting, prison discourse, and statements used in courts). It touches on current political topics like #BlackLivesMatter, human (child) trafficking, and the genocide of the Kurds among others, making it essential reading for linguists, criminologists and those with a general interest in crime-related topics alike. Covering a variety of text genres and methodological approaches, and united by the aim of deciphering how crime is portrayed ideologically, this book is the next step in developing research at the intersection of linguistics, criminology, literature and media studies.
John Douthwaite has a long-standing career as Professor of English Language. He was formerly Professor of English Language, Head of English Language at the Department of Foreign Languages and Head of Postgraduate Teacher Training Course in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Genoa, Italy. Recent publications include The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics (ed. ) (2017). Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwaltin) at a German Prosecution Office and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Huddersfield. She is a Member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Recent publications include Language and Crime (2016).
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ISBN-13: 9781108471008
Published: 30 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300

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