Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5951
Title: From Expertise to Advocacy: Forensic Linguistics and Advocacy in Asylum Seeker Cases
Contributor(s): Eades, Diana  (author)
Publication Date: 2008
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5951
Abstract: In order to test nationality claims of undocumented asylum seekers, a number of governments are using 'language analysis,' based on the assumption that the way that a person speaks contains clues about their origins. While linguists would not dispute this assumption, they are disputing a number of other assumptions, as well as practices, involved in this form of linguistic identification. This paper presents recent developments in this area of forensic linguistics, focusing specifically on the release of Guidelines by a group of linguists concerning the use of language analysis in such asylum seeker cases. It concludes with a brief discussion about challenges for linguists who move beyond expertise in individual cases and/or scholarly research to engage in 'expert advocacy.'
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Law and Language: Theory and Society, p. 87-118
Publisher: Düsseldorf University Press
Place of Publication: Düsseldorf, Germany
ISBN: 3940671029
9783940671028
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wms6QwAACAAJ
Editor: Editor(s): Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz and Dieter Stein
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Psychology

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