Victoria Guillén-Nieto is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Studies, University of Alicante, Spain

Dieter Steinis Emeritus Professor at Anglistik III Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.

Provides the student and practitioner of forensic linguistics with an up-to-date view of the discipline

Takes a non-dogmatic overview of the field that represents the most common approaches

Crosses qualitative and quantitative boundaries to demonstrate what counts as a scientific procedure

Introduction: Theory and practice in forensic linguistics: Victoria Guillén-Nieto & Dieter Alfred Stein.- Chapter 1. Serving science and serving justice: Ethical issues faced by forensic linguists in their role as expert witnesses: Janet Ainsworth.- Chapter 2. Linguistic expert evidence in the common law: Andrew Hammel.- Chapter 3. Expert evidence in civil law systems: Mercedes López Fernández.- Chapter 4. Interacting with the expert witness: Courtroom epistemics under a discourse analyst's lens: Magdalena Szczyrbak.- Chapter 5. A lie or not a lie, that is the question. Trying to take arms against a sea of conceptual troubles: Methodological and theoretical issues in linguistic approaches to lie detection: Martina Nicklaus & Dieter Alfred Stein.- Chapter 6. Authorship identification: Eilika Fobbe.- Chapter 7. Automatic authorship investigation: Hans van Halteren.- Chapter 8. Speaker identification: Gea de Jong-Lendle.- Chapter 9. Plagiarism detection: Methodological approaches: Victoria Guillén-Nieto.- Chapter 10. The linguistic analysis of suicide notes: Monika Zäko-Zieli¿ska.- Chapter 11. Fighting Cybercrime through linguistic analysis: Patrizia Anesa.- Chapter 12. Linguistic approaches to the analysis of online terrorist threats: Julien Longhi.