policespeak
See also: Policespeak
English
Etymology
police + -speak
Noun
policespeak (uncountable)
- The jargon or formal language used by the police.
- 2008, John Gibbons, M. Teresa Turell, Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics (page 75)
- In the passage above, two of the terms used by the interviewing officer are typical of legalistic/pseudo-legalistic policespeak. The officer uses the term "vehicle" even after the details of the vehicle type have been established, […]
- 2008, John Gibbons, M. Teresa Turell, Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics (page 75)