Forensic Linguistics in China: Origins, Progress, and Prospects

This Element offers a comprehensive examination of forensic linguistics in China. It traces the origins of the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and highlights the progress made in the 2000s, with a focus on the work of influential scholars such as Pan Qingyun, Wang Jie, Du Jinbang, Liao Meizhen, Yuan Chuanyou, and Wang Zhenhua. It discusses the development of Discourse Information Theory, the Principle of Goal, Functional Forensic Discourse Analysis, and Legal Discourse as a Social Process. It also analyses studies on language evidence and explores legal translation. It discusses emerging research areas, including cyberbullying language research, internet court discourse analysis, authorship analysis, expert assistance systems, and speaker identification and evidence of forensic phonetics. This Element provides valuable insights into the growth and potential of forensic linguistics in China, serving as a comprehensive resource for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in the intersection of language and law.

本書全面探討了中國的法證語言學。它追溯了該領域在1980年代和1990年代的起源，並重點介紹了2000年代的進展，特別關注了潘慶雲、王潔、杜金邦、廖美珍、袁傳友和王振華等有影響力的學者的工作。本書討論了話語信息理論、目標原則、功能性法證話語分析和法律話語作為社會過程的發展。它還分析了有關語言證據的研究，並探討了法律翻譯。本書還討論了新興的研究領域，包括網絡欺凌語言研究、網絡法庭話語分析、作者分析、專家輔助系統以及語音學法證的說話者識別和證據。本書為對語言和法律交叉領域感興趣的學者、研究人員和從業人員提供了有價值的見解，是一個全面的資源。