The Linguistics of Crime

John Douthwaite has a long-standing career as Professor of English Language. He was formerly Professor of English Language, Head of English Language at the Department of Foreign Languages and Head of Postgraduate Teacher Training Course in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Genoa, Italy. Recent publications include The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics (ed.) (2017). Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwältin) at a German Prosecution Office and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Huddersfield. She is a Member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Recent publications include Language and Crime (2016).

1. Editorial Introduction John Douthwaite; 2. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Conceptualisation of the Other Zoltán Kövecses, John Douthwaite; 3. Prison Metaphors: Conveying the Experience of Confinement Monika Fludernik; 4. Ideology in Mainstream Crime Fiction John Douthwaite; 5. A Critical and Stylistic Analysis of the Depiction of the Transnational Human Trafficking Victim in Minette Walters' The Cellar Christiana Gregoriou; 6. The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimes in Kurdish-Iraqi Sherko Bekas' Poem The Small Mirrors Mahmood K. Ibrahim, Ulrike Tabbert; 7. Stylistic Aspects of Detective Fiction in Translation: The Case of the Murders in the Rue Morgue in Slovenian Simon Zupan; 8. Transnational Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes: A Relevance-theoretic Discussion Anne Furlong; 9. The Ethical Effects of Voice-over Narration on a Victim Testimonial: A Text-World Analysis of 'The Bed Intruder' Meme; M'Balia Thomas; 10. Realising Betrayal: A Multimodal Stylistic Analysis of a Scene from the TV Series The Sopranos Simon Statham; 11. 'Nossa Vida e Bandida': Reading Rio Prohibited Funk from a CDA Perspective Andrea Mayr; 12. Deviant Mind Style of a Schizophrenic Offender Ulrike Tabbert; 13. Narrower, or Broader Ground? The Role and Function of Metaphors in Legal Discourse Douglas Mark Ponton, Marco Canepa; 14. Condemning the Condemners: The Portrayal of Regulators in UK News about Corporate Crime Ilse A. Ras; 15. Ideology in Critical Crime Fiction John Douthwaite.