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Defamation as a Language Crime: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Defamation Cases in the High Courts of Justice of Spain ...
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The investigation of language crimes is one of the expert areas of forensic linguistics as a forensic science that analyses language as evidence. This paper focuses on a particular type of language crime: defamation. This is an offence perpetrated, primarily, with malicious language—either written language (libel), spoken language (slander), or technospeech (Garfield, 2011: 17)—that involves social emotions and intentional false communication and harms a person’s dignity, prestige, and reputation in the social community. Since the 1980s, linguists have tried to shed light on defamation as a language crime from various linguistic theories such as speech act theory, semantics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, as shown in works by Durant (1996: 195–210), Hancher (1980: 245–256), Kniffka (2007: 113–148), Shuy (2010) and Tiersma (1987: 303–350). In this paper, we take a different path in suggesting a sociopragmatics-based approach to the analysis of defamation, with special reference to impoliteness (Culpeper, ... : International Journal of Language & Law (JLL), Vol 9: Forensic Linguistics: New Procedures and Standards ...
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forensic linguistics, High Courts of Justice of Spain, impoliteness, language as evidence, language crimes; Social and Behavioral Sciences Linguistics Applied Linguistics; Social and Behavioral Sciences Legal Studies Forensic Science and Technology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.14762/jll.2020.001 https://www.languageandlaw.eu/jll/article/view/61
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Defamation as a Language Crime: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Defamation Cases in the High Courts of Justice of Spain
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Interpreting the 'Language of War' in war-crimes trials
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Stern, L. - : Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature), 2020
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Crossing the Line: Lived Experience of Sexual Violence among Trans Women of Colour from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in Australia
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