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應該就是forensic linguistics吧，好興奮喔！
感覺很酷說！

把syllabus po上來：
Text: Lawrence, Solan and Peter Tiersman, Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. Chicago. 2005.

1/30 Language and Criminal Law
(What role does language play in legal discourse? )
(What can linguists say about legal discourse?)

2/6 Linguistic concepts and their legal relevance.
(Linguists as experts)
(Levi, Language as evidence)


2/13 What is "consent"?
When is a "request" more than a request

2/27 The right to counsel: how (not) to get it
(Interrogation practices and false confessions)

3/6 Miranda warnings: Problems of comprehension
(Lakoff, True Confessions?

3/13 Memory for "exact" speech: Eyewitness (or earwitness) reliability

3/20 Speaker identification: Phonetics and voice ID

4/3 Written documents: Proof of authorship
(Lakoff, Kaczynski Declaration)

4/10 Speech act in Court: How to tell when an Utterance is Criminal:
Solicitation, conspiracy, bribery
(Language Crimes. Roger Shuy)

4/17 More Language Crimes: Threats: How (Not) to make them

4/24 Language Crimes: Perjury: How to lie
(這個大概會講柯林頓到底算不算作偽證XD）