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Approaching A Forensic Text -- The Language Of The Law -- Legal Genres -- Collecting Evidence: Calls To The Emergency Services And First Encounters With Witnesses And Suspects -- Order In Court -- The Work Of The Forensic Linguist -- The Work Of The Forensic Phonetician And The Document Examiner -- Idiolect And Uniqueness Of Encoding -- On Textual Borrowing -- The Linguist As Expert Witness. Malcolm Coulthard And Alison Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [216]-231) And Index.