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The Linguistics of Crime Bringingtogetherscholarsfromarangeofdisciplines,thisbookexploresthe analysis of crime-related language. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, prag- matics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics and intertextuality, it compares and con- trasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres, both fictitious (crime novels and crime in TV, film and music) and in real life (crimereporting,prisondiscourseandstatementsusedincourts).Ittouches oncurrentpoliticaltopicslike#BlackLivesMatter,human(child)trafficking andthegenocideoftheKurds,amongothers,makingitessentialreadingfor linguists, criminologists and those with a general interest in crime-related topics alike. Covering a variety of text genres and methodological approaches, and united by the aim of deciphering how crime is portrayed ideologically, this book is the next step in developing research at the inter- sectionoflinguistics,criminology,literatureandmediastudies. john douthwaite has a long-standing career as Professor of English Language.HewasformerlyProfessorofEnglishLanguage,HeadofEnglish LanguageattheDepartmentofForeignLanguagesandHeadofPostgraduate TeacherTrainingCourseinForeignLanguages,LiteraturesandCulturesatthe University of Genoa, Italy. Recent publications include The Stylistics of Landscapes,theLandscapesofStylistics(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).RecentpublicationsincludeLanguageandCrime(2016). blih d li b C bid i i blih d li b C bid i i The Linguistics of Crime Edited by John Douthwaite UniversitàdegliStudidiGenova Ulrike Tabbert UniversityofHuddersfield blih d li b C bid i i UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108471008 DOI:10.1017/9781108581332 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Douthwaite,John,editor.|Tabbert,Ulrike,editor. Title:Thelinguisticsofcrime/editedbyJohnDouthwaite,UlrikeTabbert. Description:Cambridge,UK;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2021.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2021040761(print)|LCCN2021040762(ebook)|ISBN 9781108471008(hardback)|ISBN9781108456951(paperback)|ISBN 9781108581332(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Crimeinmassmedia|Crimeinliterature.|Languageandculture.| Massmediaandlanguage.|BISAC:LANGUAGEARTS&DISCIPLINES/ Linguistics/General|LCGFT:Essays. Classification:LCCP96.C74L572021(print)|LCCP96.C74(ebook)| DDC364.01/4–dc23/eng/20211120 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021040761 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021040762 ISBN978-1-108-47100-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. blih d li b C bid i i Contents List of Figures pagevii List of Tables viii List of Contributors ix 1 Editorial Introduction 1 john douthwaite and ulrike tabbert 2 The Metaphoric and Metonymic Conceptualisation ofthe Other 16 zolta´n ko¨vecses and john douthwaite 3 PrisonMetaphors: Conveying the Experience ofConfinement 39 monika fludernik 4 Ideology inMainstream Crime Fiction 57 john douthwaite 5 ACriticalandStylisticAnalysisoftheDepictionoftheTransnational HumanTraffickingVictiminMinetteWalters’TheCellar 88 christiana gregoriou 6 The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimesin Kurdish-Iraqi Sherko Bekas’ Poem The Small Mirrors 105 mahmood kadir ibrahim and ulrike tabbert 7 StylisticAspects of Detective Fiction in Translation: The Case of ‘The Murdersinthe Rue Morgue’in Slovenian 121 simon zupan 8 Transnational Adaptations ofSherlock Holmes: ARelevance-Theoretic Discussion 150 anne furlong 9 TheEthicalEffectsofVoice-OverNarrationonaVictimTestimonial: AText-WorldAnalysisof‘TheBedIntruder’Meme 174 m’balia thomas v blih d li b C bid i i vi Contents 10 Realising Betrayal: AMultimodal StylisticAnalysis ofa Scene from theTV Series The Sopranos 194 simon statham 11 ‘NossaVidaé Bandida’: Reading RioProhibited Funkfrom a CDA Perspective 214 andrea mayr 12 DeviantMind Style of aSchizophrenic Offender 253 ulrike tabbert 13 Narrower or Broader Ground? The Role and Function of Metaphors inLegalDiscourse 282 douglas mark ponton and marco canepa 14 Condemning the Condemners: The Portrayal of Regulatorsin UK News about Corporate Crime 301 ilse a. ras 15 Ideology inCritical CrimeFiction 330 john douthwaite Thefullversionofthischaptercanbeaccessedonlineatwww.cambridge.org/ LinguisticsOfCrime Index 332 blih d li b C bid i i Figures 2.1 Animage-schematic structure for the HeartofDarkness page 26 3.1 Source terms fordescribingprisons(prison isx metaphors) 41 9.1 Text-world architectureof‘The Bed Intruder’ 185 14.1 Collocation of FSAand ‘failed’ 321 vii blih d li b C bid i i Tables 6.1 The toolsof Critical Stylistics and their conceptual categories page 110 12.1 Calculating statistical significancefor first-person-singular pronoun use inJDC comparedwithLIWC 2015 265 13.1 The narrow ground versus thebroad ground 295 14.1 Overview of articles and words per newspaper incorporate fraud corpus 304 14.2 Top twenty-fivecollocates of regulator|regulators, sorted by frequency 307 14.3 Top five n-grams for financial, authority,services, commission, securities, exchange and conduct 308 14.4 Top twenty-fivecollocates for FSAand Securities # Exchange Commission, sortedby frequency 309 14.5 Top twenty-fivecollocating verbs toregulator|regulators 318 14.6 Aggressive, fail*, flexing, overzealous,teeth, toothless andtough ascollocates to regulator|regulators 319 14.7 Aggressive, fail*, flexing, overzealous,teeth, toothlessand tough as collocates to Securities #Exchange Commission 322 viii blih d li b C bid i i Contributors marcocanepaisanItalianjudge.FromJuly2018tothepresent,hehasbeen presidentofthepenalsectionoftheCourtofJusticeinSavona.Beforethen, heworkedasajudgeinSicily(1999–2006),apublicprosecutorinSardinia (1996–1999)andalawyer(1992).Hewritespapersandparticipatesinlegal conferences, giving talks about comparative law. In June 2016, he shadowed a judge at theEnglish Crown Court. john douthwaite has a long-standing career as Professor of English Language and taught at several universities including Udine, Turin, Cagliari and at Scuola di Applicazione (the Italian Army Officer Training School) in Turin. He was 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 andCultures atthe University ofGenoa, Italy. monika fludernik is Professor English Literature at the University of Freiburg/Germany. She is a narratologist by training but has also worked in postcolonial studies, aesthetics and Law and Literature. Her most recent book was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 (Metaphors of Confinement). She is currently directing a so-called Koselleck project (a specific type of project funded by the German Research Foundation) on diachronic narratology. anne furlong is Associate Professor in the English Department at the UniversityofPrinceEdwardIsland.Hercurrentresearchextendstheappli- cation ofrelevance theoryto adaptation studies. christianagregoriou isanAssociateProfessorinEnglishLanguage atthe University of Leeds, specialising in the stylistics of crime writing. Most notable are her three monographs: Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media (2017); Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives (2011); and Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction (2007). Her edited collections include Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-Day News Media, True Crime ix blih d li b C bid i i

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