 Published
works of Patrizia Bellucci |
| A
onor del vero |
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Patrizia
Bellucci's
A onor del vero
Fondamenti di linguistica giudiziaria
With
an introduction by Tullio De Mauro
UTET
Libreria - 2005 XVI-542 pages |
| ISBN
88-7750-992-9 |
Now
you can download all the volume's chapters!
please see the italian
page!
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[book's
index] 20kb | [back
cover] 10kb | |
Book's
Presentation at the Università per Stranieri di Siena | ||
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Book's
Presentation at the Unversità degli Studi di Firenze | ||
Book's
Presentation ate the Università degli Studi di Cagliari | ||
The
book is owned by the University Library of Florence | ||
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On
line book's review (in italian) by Erica Romagnoli |  |
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The trial is relatively unknown and unstudied as a basic linguistic
event of judicial activity. However, in order to reconstruct the event and
to compare it with the norms of the legal system, the judge must know how to read
and interpret a myriad of discourses of every type, origin, and purpose. When
making a ruling, the judge has to synthesize this wide range of information and
compare it with the words of the legislator.
Despite the lack of attention given to it in the training of government and professional
members of the legal system, knowing how to confront this complex linguistic itinerary
with explicit knowledge is necessary for the proper exercise of jurisdictional
duties. Wiretaps, interrogations, debates, and court rulings are, above all,
matters of language (spoken, written, intercepted, or transcribed) and of
communicative interaction that this book aspires to analyze from a linguistic
perspective for the benefit of all men and women of the law and for whoever else
has interest.
After years of research into judicial activity, Patrizia Bellucci expounds
and evaluates - with instruments unique to the field of linguistics - all phases
of a recently held homicide trial, from the investigative stage to the gathering
and presenting of evidence to the wording of the sentence. The methodological
prospective is that of interpretive sociolinguistics, which sees a relationship
between language and society and assumes that their interaction, even in legal
contexts, is co-constructed by all participants.
Patrizia Bellucci teaches Sociolinguistics at
the University of Florence and directs the forensic linguistics laboratory (the
Laboratorio di Linguistica Guidiziaria, or LALIGI)
in the same university's Linguistics Department. She has published numerous essays
in the related but distinct fields of sociolinguistics, dialectology, and linguistic
education. The common thread of her writing is an unremitting concern for the
social and political applications of her research
Note: At present Patrizia Bellucci's A onor del vero. Fondamenti di linguistica giudiziaria is available only in its original Italian version.
