Victoria Guillén Nieto

• Professor
• University of Alicante

This chapter deals with plagiarism detection. After explaining the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement, the chapter analyses the problems that challenge the expert linguist’s work, especially the undervaluation of scientific linguistic expertise in the courts of justice, the admissibility of scientific evidence in the courts of...

The chapter first establishes some basic conceptual distinctions regarding activities in the field of law and language. It argues that legal linguistics and forensic linguistics are very separate pursuits in significant respects and must not be conflated under the same umbrella. The chapter briefly looks at the development of forensic linguistics....

Drawing on the hypothesis that workplace harassment may be considered a genre of negative communication serving malicious purposes (Guillén Nieto & Stein 2019; Stein in this volume), the purposes of this paper are threefold. In the first place, we consider the difficulties involved in proving workplace harassment before administration or in court....

Hate Speech Linguistic Perspectives

This article defines Legal Linguistics (also known as Jurilinguistics) and Forensic Linguistics as two distinct yet complementary applied linguistic subdisciplines that play unique roles in Language and Law. Our exploration is based on how these two disciplines, each with its own set of contributions, complement each other. After providing an intro...

The Language of Harassment: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language as Evidence addresses harassment head-on by conducting a thorough linguistic analysis of this pervasive social phenomenon. Utilizing a dearth of linguistic research on this topic, this book investigates the strategic language used by harassers to convey their ill intentions and inflict...

This article tackles the task of au- thorship verification in the joint drafting of lawsuits. The article attempts to answer the following questions: What problems hinder the task of authorship verification in the joint drafting of lawsuits? How can one discriminate the individual writing of the subject whose authorship is to be verified? What meth...

This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the social phenomenon of migration from various legal-linguistic perspectives. Migration has become a global phenomenon and a burning issue provoking social conflict and political instability in modern societies all over the world. The question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated poli...

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics. Part I of the book focuses on the role of the linguist as an expert witness in common law and civil law jurisdictions, the relation of expert witnesses and lawyers, ethics standards, and courtroom interaction. Part II deals with some of the majo...

Quid pro quo sexual harassment falls under the category of sexual coercion. It refers to predatory sexual behaviour in which the perpetrator exerts power abuse over the target to engage in sexual activity (Galdi, Massaa & Canidu 2014). Perpetrators of quid pro quo sexual harassment are bound to commit the crime indirectly because they do not want t...

This paper focuses on plagiarism detection in a professional legal genre: the lawsuit (: 261-273). Its main aim is to analyse the major approaches to extrinsic plagiarism detection, namely computer-based approaches and language-based approaches, either form-only-based or integrated. Our discussion attempts to answer five questions: (a) What type of...

This paper focuses on plagiarism detection in a professional legal genre: the lawsuit (: 261-273). Its main aim is to analyse the major approaches to extrinsic plagiarism detection, namely computer-based approaches and language-based approaches, either form-only-based or integrated. Our discussion attempts to answer five questions: (a) What type of...

This paper focuses on a global social conflict, gender-based violence, that only in Spain caused the death of over one thousand women between 1997 and 2018. From a legal linguistics perspective, we examine the concept of gender-based violence as well as the effects of the mediatization of the law (Hepp / Hjarvard / Lundby 2015: 314– 324). We hypoth...

Se abordaron diferentes formas en que el lingüista puede ayudar a científicos y profesionales en la adquisición de competencias lingüísticas y comunicativas, en inglés y en español, que les facultan para desempeñar actividades académicas y profesionales que requieren de un uso correcto, apropiado y efectivo de las citadas lenguas.

The investigation of language crimes is one of the expert areas of forensic linguistics as a forensic science that analyses language as evidence. This paper focuses on a particular type of language crime: defamation. This is an offence perpetrated, primarily, with malicious language either written language (libel), spoken language (slander), or tec...

Although the value of serious games in education is undeniable and the potential benefits of using video games as ideal companions to classroom instruction is unquestionable, there is still little consensus on the game features supporting learning effectiveness, the process by which games engage learners, and the types of learning outcomes that can...

This paper explores the way the linguist as expert witness may smooth the progress of legal decision-making in cases involving a Community trademark (CTM) dispute. The study hypothesizes that the seesaw of court decisions found in CTM disputes could be avoided, if linguists were called upon as experts by the courts. Therefore, the discussion attemp...

In this talk we will be looking at our work in progress on the graphic adventure "It's a Deal!" which we are creating with the support of the research project COMINTER-SIMULNEG (I+D HUM2006-12989) for the purpose of developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in business English. The graphic adventure uses a simulated experience to prov...

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Back in the 1990s Malcolm Coulthard announced the beginnings of an emerging discipline, forensic linguistics, resulting from the interface of language, crime and the law. Today the courts are more than ever calling on language experts to help in certain types of cases, such as authorship identification, plagiarism, legal interpreting and translatio...

Guía Docente de la asignatura El inglés de los Negocios (11005)

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Workshop: The Business Call

In Intercultural Business Communication and Simulation and Gaming Methodology, Victoria Guillén-Nieto, Carmen Marimón-Llorca and Chelo Vargas-Sierra serve up an interesting set of articles on intercultural business communication (IBC). It is important to assume, from the very beginning, that IBC is a complex disciplinary endeavour, as many studies...

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Drawing on the model that explains culture through the metaphorical image of an iceberg, as well as on the concepts of cultural frame and strategic cultural orientation, the aim of this paper is to explore the reasons that might explain why Spanish toy manufacturers use adjectives such as peculiar, strict, severe, aloof, distant, unexpressive, cold...

Drawing on the assumption that the business negotiation is a specific type of spoken genre, this piece of qualitative research focuses on the mental patterns or scripts that a sample of European Business English students, who have not been trained in negotiating skills, have regarding the discourse structure of sales negotiations, i.e., the presenc...

Desde mediados del siglo XX ha ido creciendo progresivamente el interés por el estudio de la comunicación intercultural desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. Dicho interés académico se ha visto fortalecido por el proceso de globalización que la sociedad está experimentando hoy en día, así como por el proceso de convergencia entre los países que c...