Work on Language and the Law within Systemics Major body of work by John Gibbons: Gibbons, John. (Ed) Language and the Law London: Longman. 1994. Gibbons, John. Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language in the Justice System Oxford/Malden MA: Blackwell (Language and Society series). 2003. Gibbons, John. 'The Why question' Introduction to Edition 2, 1 of the journal Forensic Linguistics. 1995. Gibbons, John. 'Courtroom Applications of Second Language Acquisition Research' Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 3. 131-133. 1986 Gibbons, John. 'Police Interviews with People of Non-English Speaking Background Some Problems' Legal Services Bulletin 12,4: 183-184. 1987. Gibbons, John. 'Applied Linguistics in Court' Applied Linguistics.11,3. 229-237. 1990. Gibbons, John. 'Distortions of the Police interview process rev ealed by video- tape' Forensic Linguistics. 3, 2. 289-298. 1996. Gibbons, John. and S. Hale. 'Varying Realities: Patterned Changes in the Interpreter's Representation of Courtroom and External Realities. In Applied Linguistics. 20, 2. 203-220. 1999. Gibbons, John. Language and the Law. In Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 19. 156-173. 1999. Gibbons, John. 'Revising the language of New South Wales police procedures: applied linguistics in action.' Applied Linguistics 22, 4. 439-470. 2001 Gibbons, John. "Legal transformations in Spanish: an ?audiencia? in Chile." Forensic Linguistics. 8, 1. 24-43. 2001. Gibbons, John. 'An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics'. In Judicial Officers Bulletin 10, 5. 1998. 33-36 & 40. Gibbons, John. 'What got lost? The place of electronic recording and interpreters in police interviews' in D. Eades (ed) Language in Evidence: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives in Multicultural Australia Sydney: UNSW Press. 1995. 175-186. ==== Work by Alisa Asp. Asp, Elissa 2000 "Legal victims". In Eija Ventola (ed.) Discourse And Community. Doing Functional Linguistics. Language in Performance 21. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. === Rick Iedema: Iedema, R., 1993, "Legal English: Discipline specific literacy and genre theory", in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 16: 2, pp. 86-122 Iedema, R., 1995, "Legal Ideology: The Role of Language in Common Law Appellate Judgments", in The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Vol VIII, No 22 1995 pp. 21-36 === one MA thesis by a student in the National University of Singapore. Supervisor was Dr Kay O Halloran (who may be on the sysfling list as well? Legislative discourse is addressed in Working with Discourse (Martin & Rose), in the context of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilation act. === Donna Miller Donna R. Miller, "The Juridical Text as Cultural Fragment: Discourse Communities and the (Re) creation of Truth", in P. Bayley, D.R. Miller, Texts and Contexts of the American Dream: a social semiotic study of political language, Bologna: Pitagora, 1993, pp. 101-146. - "Just how cruel is 'cruel'? Notes on the Anglo-American history of an epithet", in Taylor Torsello C., Haarman L., Gavioli L. (a cura di), British/American variation in language, theory and methodology: The Anglo-American Centaur, Bologna, CLUEB, 1998, pp. 169-185. - "Reasoning Europe: Some Semantic Orientations in Recent British Commons Debates on Maastricht", in M. Bondi (a cura di), Forms of Argumentative Discourse: per un'analisi linguistica dell'argomentare, Bologna: CLUEB, 1998, pp. 175-194. - "Meaning up for grabs: value-orientation patterns in British parliamentary debate on Europe", in Verschueren J. (ed.), Language and Ideology: Selected papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, vol. I, Antwerp, International Pragmatics Association, 1999, pp. 386-404. - "Ways of meaning 'yea' and 'nay' in parliamentary debate as register: a cost-benefit analysis", In M. Bignami, G. Iamartino, C. Pagetti (eds), The Economy Principle in English: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, Edizioni Unicopli, Milano, 2002, pp. 220-233. - "Multiple judicial opinions as specialized sites of engagement: conflicting paradigms of valuation and legitimation in Bush v. Gore 2000". In Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts, a cura di M. Gotti, D. Heller e M. Dossena, Bern: Peter Lang, Linguistic Insights Series, 2002, pp. 119-141. - "'Truth, Justice and the American Way': The APPRAISAL SYSTEM of JUDGEMENT in the U.S. House debate on the impeachment of the President, 1998". forthcoming (january 2004) in P. Bayley (ed.), Cross-cultural perspectives on parliamentary discourse, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.