Defamation cases 117 the language of defamation cases gives insight into understanding the linguistic material used and the mechanisms operating in defamation cases and in so doing the book results in an excellent illustration of how forensic linguistic work should be related to real law cases apart from exploring this common. This book shows how linguistic analysis can be useful to lawyers on either sides of defamation lawsuits it gives a brief overview of the parts of defamation law that linguistics can address and then illustrates how phonetics grammar semantics speech acts pragmatics conveyed meaning and lexical choices were used in eleven defamation cases. The language of defamation cases roger w shuy since defamation cases are largely about language linguistic analysis can be central to their resolution the language of defamation cases describes eleven different case studies that represent a broad range of litigants and types of linguistic analysis. It gives a brief overview of the parts of defamation law that linguistics can address and then illustrates how phonetics grammar semantics speech acts pragmatics conveyed meaning and lexical