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. The language of defamation cases book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers slander and libel cases are largely about how one party u. The language of defamation cases roger w shuy abstract 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 . Dominique lagorgette defamation libel insult outragethe amount of language crimesshuy 1993 taken to court in france over the last two decades is constantly increasing but linguists are