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World Jurilinguistics

International journals, associations, foundational literature and online resources for students and researchers.

What is jurilinguistics?

Jurilinguistics is a scientific discipline whose object of study is the relationship between language and law.

Aims and tasks of jurilinguistics

  1. Continuously advancing theoretical knowledge of legal language and legal speech.
  2. Applied research into the language of law, legislative style and legislative drafting.
  3. Developing the methodological foundations for expressing legal norms in draft laws.
  4. Identifying wording that hinders the application of law in practice and recommending effective formulations.
  5. Unifying and standardising legal terminology.
  6. Legal translation studies, legal lexicography and legal technique.
  7. Linguo-legal review of normative legal acts.
  8. Translating normative acts and international treaties and ensuring their authenticity.
  9. Establishing the scientific basis for courses in the linguistic training of lawyers — Foundations of Legal Language, Writing Skills in Law, Language for Specific Purposes, The Art of Words in Law, Courtroom Rhetoric, Forensic Linguistics, Linguistic Expertise in Court, Foundations of Legal Drafting — and introducing them into teaching.
  10. Defining the “intersection point” of legal and linguistic science: the role of language in the development of law, and of law in the development of language.
  11. Studying the place and role of the state language, legal language and legal speech in the development of the country and society.

01International journals

IJSLLJournal

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

The world’s leading peer-reviewed journal in forensic linguistics and speech analysis and the official journal of IAFLL and IAFPA (since 1994). It publishes groundbreaking research on courtroom discourse, authorship attribution and linguistic expertise in verbal crimes — an essential resource for advanced legal-linguistic scholarship.

journal.equinoxpub.com
LESLIOpen-access journal

Linguistic Evidence in Security, Law and Intelligence

An international peer-reviewed, open-access journal of TALE (USA). It focuses on the practical application of linguistic evidence in law enforcement, national security and judicial proceedings, with free access to its articles.

tale-forensiclinguists.org
LL/LDOpen-access journal

Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito

An international open-access journal (University of Porto) on legal language, legislative drafting and forensic linguistics, publishing freely available articles in English and Portuguese.

ojs.letras.up.pt

02Associations & centres

IAFLLAssociation

International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics

The principal international organisation uniting forensic and legal linguists worldwide. Professor Kuchimov is a member of IAFLL. The association runs international conferences and summer schools and supports the IJSLL journal.

iafll.org
AIFLResearch institute

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics

Based at Aston University (UK), AIFL is the world’s premier research institute for forensic linguistics, hosting cutting-edge methods in forensic speech and text analysis.

aston.ac.uk
FoLDDigital archive

Forensic Linguistic Databank

A specialised digital repository of real-world casework data, threatening communications and legal transcripts — an invaluable empirical database for doctoral researchers.

fold.aston.ac.uk
TALEAssociation

The Association for Linguistic Evidence

A US association of researchers and practitioners in linguistic evidence and the publisher of LESLI.

tale-forensiclinguists.org

03The “Golden Fund”

Foundational international literature recommended for students (APA style).

  1. Coulthard, M., Johnson, A., & Wright, D. (2016). An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence (2nd ed.). Routledge.

    The best-known textbook of forensic linguistics.

  2. Tiersma, P. M. (1999). Legal Language. University of Chicago Press.

    A foundational work on legal drafting and the theory of legal language.

  3. Solan, L. M., & Tiersma, P. M. (2005). Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. University of Chicago Press.

    A guide to the linguistic analysis of defamation, insult and threats.

04Online resources

AIFL events & International Summer SchoolOpen lectures and seminars by Aston professors and the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis. IAFLL conferences & resourcesConference materials, opportunities for early-career researchers and useful links across the field. The professor’s YouTube channelRecordings of TV programmes and lectures, also collected in the Video Library.