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This edited collection brings together, for the first time, contributions from different context-language situations on forensic communication, combining theoretical and methodological studies with professional and technical capabilities.In this sense, academic and applied researches in forensic communication represent the scientific starting point of this book, which particularly investigates forensic discourse analysis and transcription of oral data. It makes use of variety of different approaches, including institutional interactions, the analysis of voice, discourse devices, and transcription methods.The book will appeal primarily to scholars in sociolinguistics and neighbouring disciplines within the social sciences which are interested in language, discourse studies, speaker recognition, transcription and research into aspects of forensic communication in late modernity.

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A vivid and detailed account of life in the westward sweep between 1776 and 1890. --The Los Angeles Times With the book's sophisticated concepts of organization and approach, its rewarding details, and its vivid and imaginative writing, it supersedes other social histories of the frontier. --The Journal of Southern History This is clearly a labor of love by the author, and the respect and admiration he has for his subject is infectious in creating for the reader a small part of the thrill felt by the actual pioneer in going West. --The Journal of American History Bartlett has an excellent eye and pen for the rich human diversity that made up the westward movement....His book charts the story in a way which recapture the thrill without exaggeration or sentimentality. It combines scholarship with imagination, the prose of the West with its poetry. --The Economist

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Franca Orletti is Full Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Human Studies at the University of Roma Tre, Italy. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics.Laura Mariottini is Adjunct Professor of Spanish Language and Translation in the Department of Political Sciences of the University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Her research interests and outcomes are concentrated in three areas of Spanish linguistics, namely interactional pragmatics, Spanish for Specific Purposes, and discourse analysis.

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