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Shuy continues his contribution to the application of linguistics to issues of language in legal contexts with his latest book, The language of defamation cases. For those unfamiliar with Shuy's work, he is a major contributor to the field of language and the law and the field of forensic linguistics. The language of defamation cases is divided into two major sections. The first section, Part 1, focuses on how linguistics can aid in the determination of defamation cases and the second, Parts 2-4, presents defamation case examples in media, medicine, and business.
Ch. 1 presents the reader...