What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics
Title | What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Penke |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027222374 |
What counts as evidence in linguistics? This question is addressed by the contributions to the present volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004). Focusing on the innateness debate, what is illustrated is how formal and functional approaches to linguistics have different perspectives on linguistic evidence. While special emphasis is paid to the status of typological evidence and universals for the construction of Universal Grammar (UG), this volume also highlights more general issues such as the roles of (non)-standard language and historical evidence. To address the overall topic, the following three guiding questions are raised: What type of evidence can be used for innateness claims (or UG)?; What is the content of such innate features (or UG)?; and, How can UG be used as a theory guiding empirical research? A combination of articles and peer commentaries yields a lively discussion between leading representatives of formal and functional approaches.
What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?
Title | What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics? PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Penke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Linguistic Evidence
Title | Linguistic Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | William M. O'Barr |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-05-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1483297713 |
With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a variety of different types of inquiry, including the ethnography of courtroom speech and social psychological experiments focused on effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. Four sets of linguistic variables and related experimental studies have constituted a major portion of the research: (1) "powerful" versus "powerless" speech; (2) hypercorrect versus formal speech; (3) narrative versus fragmented testimony, and (4) simultaneous speech by witnesses and lawyers. All four sets of studies focus on the central question of importance of form over content of testimony.
Linguistic Evidence
Title | Linguistic Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan Kepser |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110183129 |
Review text: "A volume which has indeed presented a rich picture of the role of linguistic evidence in the contemporary, especially generative, study of language."Gerard Steen in: Functions of Language 1/2007.
Data and Evidence in Linguistics
Title | Data and Evidence in Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | András Kertész |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2012-02-09 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1107009243 |
The question of what types of data and evidence can be used is one of the most important topics in linguistics. This book is the first to comprehensively present the methodological problems associated with linguistic data and evidence. Its originality is twofold. First, the authors' approach accounts for a series of unexplained characteristics of linguistic theorising: the uncertainty and diversity of data, the role of evidence in the evaluation of hypotheses, the problem solving strategies as well as the emergence and resolution of inconsistencies. Second, the findings are obtained by the application of a new model of plausible argumentation which is also of relevance from a general argumentation theoretical point of view. All concepts and theses are systematically introduced and illustrated by a number of examples from different linguistic theories, and a detailed case-study section shows how the proposed model can be applied to specific linguistic problems.
An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics
Title | An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Coulthard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2007-11-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134361521 |
Overview of the interface of language and the law, illustrated with authentic data and contemporary case studies. Topics include collection of evidence, discourse, courtroom interaction, legal language, comprehension and forensic phonetics.
Language as Evidence
Title | Language as Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Guillén-Nieto |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2022-02-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3030843300 |
This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics. Part I of the book focuses on the role of the linguist as an expert witness in common law and civil law jurisdictions, the relation of expert witnesses and lawyers, ethics standards, and courtroom interaction. Part II deals with some of the major areas of expertise of forensic linguistics as the scientific study of language as evidence, namely authorship identification, speaker identification, text authentication, deception and lie detection, plagiarism detection, and cyber language crimes. This book is intended to be used as a reference for academics, students and practitioners of Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Law, Criminology, and Forensic Psychology, among other disciplines.