04305nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001800153072001500171072002300186072001400209100007900223245015200302250001800454264007900472300004200551336002600593337002600619338003600645347002400681505023500705520221600940650002503156650003003181650002603211650001703237650002503254650005003279650001703329650001903346700007303365700008303438700007603521710003403597773002603631776003603657776003603693776003603729856004603765978-3-031-80801-2DE-He21320251030114940.0cr nn 008mamaa250208s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830318080127 a10.1007/978-3-031-80801-22doi 4aP129-138.7222 7aCF2bicssc 7aLAN0090002bisacsh 7aCF2thema1 aBoucher, Abigail.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aCrime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the Publich[electronic resource] /cby Abigail Boucher, Tim Grant, Daniel Jenkin-Smith, Emily Powell.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 108 p. 3 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. Introduction -- 2. Describing, motivating, and appealing: A move analysis of missing persons appeals -- 3. Missing Persons Appeals and Literary Studies: A genre fiction analysis -- 4. Implications for Practice -- 5. Conclusion.  aThis book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public. This book is based on a pilot project funded by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, entitled 'Genre, Pacing, and Narrative in Police Missing Persons Appeals' (Aug 2021-Nov 2022). The authors identify a missing persons appeal as a literary and linguistic genre in its own right and illustrate the problems that arise when the appeals writing process goes unregulated or unstudied: there is currently little-to-no official, national police guidance, regulation, or standard procedure for writing a missing persons appeal in the UK. The authors also identify opportunities for improving the writing and delivery of appeals by further (and more intentionally) applying crime fiction conventions, narrative devices, and pacing, to maximise audience reach and increase the chances of recovering a missing person. This book will be of particular interest to genre fiction scholars (particularly those interested in crime fiction), forensic linguists, and media studies scholars. Abigail Boucher is a senior lecturer in English literature at Aston University, UK. She is a scholar of genre fiction, literature of the long nineteenth century, and medicine and science in literature. She is also the Director for Aston University’s Research Centre for the Humanities. Tim Grant is a professor of forensic linguistics at Aston University, UK. He is one of the world’s most experienced forensic linguistic practitioners with a particular interest in forensic authorship analysis, focusing on short form messages. Emily Powell is the Head of the Centre for International English at the University of South Wales, UK. Her research sits at the intersection between criminology and linguistics and applies corpus linguistics to forensic texts. Daniel Jenkin-Smith is a lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, and a postdoctoral researcher at Aston University, UK. He has specialisms in British and French literature of the long nineteenth century and the history of labour and office work. 0aApplied linguistics. 0aLinguisticsxMethodology. 0aNarration (Rhetoric). 0aFilm genres.14aApplied Linguistics.24aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics.24aNarratology.24aGenre Studies.1 aGrant, Tim.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1 aJenkin-Smith, Daniel.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1 aPowell, Emily.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303180800508iPrinted edition:z978303180802908iPrinted edition:z978303180803640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80801-2