Publications

Books 

Mason, M. Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law: The Invocation Game (2024), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/police-interrogation-language-and-the-law/AA220D168F3D9E018E75BF517C813F97 

Mason, M. and F. Rock. Eds. The Discourse of Police Interviews (2020), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
Link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo41210416.html 

Mason, M. Courtroom Interpreting (2008), Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group.  
Link: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761841746/Courtroom-Interpreting 
 

Select Peer-Reviewed Research

Mason, M. (forthcoming/2026). ‘Looking for the Smoking Gun’: Kretzschmar’s Take on Forensic Corpus Analysis. In Burkette, A., Childs, B., Tamasi, S (eds.) Corpora and Complexity in English Language Research: Essays in honor of William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Routledge.

Mason, M. and Mason, R. D. (2023). Reconsidering Miranda Rights: Modeling Strategic Action during the Invocation Stage of a Police Interrogation. Rationality and Society.

Mason, M (2018). Negotiated Exchanges and Linguistic Footing in the Spanish-English Bilingual Courtroom. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. 1-14. 

Mason, M. (2016). The ‘Preparatory’ and ‘Argumentation’ Stages of Police Interrogation: A Linguistic Analysis of a Criminal Investigation. Language & Communication 48: 79-87. 

Mason, M. (2015) The Role of Interpreters in Adjudicating Blame: An Examination of Spanish Clitics and Active-Passive Voice in a Spanish/English Bilingual Criminal Trial. Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (Dec., 10.2). 

Mason, M. (2013) Can I get a Lawyer?: A Suspect's Use of Indirect Requests in a Custodial Setting. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 20(2): 203-227. 

Mason, M. and R. D. Mason. (2012) Communicating a Green Corporate Perspective: Ideological Persuasion in the Corporate Environmental Report. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 26(4): 478-505. 

Mason, M. (2011) Examining the Rhetorical Structure and Discursive Features of Letters of Leniency as a Genre. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association 21(1): 111-26. 

Mason, M. (2008) Psychics and the ‘Other Side': A Discourse Analysis of Televised Psychic Readings. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association 18(3): 453-68. 

Mason, M. and Mason, R. D. (2006) Legal Standards for Establishing Concealment: A Theoretical Framework for Statistical Analysis. Police Quarterly 9: 291-302. 

Mason, M. (2004) Referential Choices and the Need for Repairs in Covertly Taped Conversations. Journal of Pragmatics 36: 1139-56. 


Current research project:

Corpus-Based NLP and Metadiscursive Analysis of Sustainability Discourse: A Comparative Study of Climate Reporting in United States and European Union Corporate Disclosures.

Select Grants/Fellowships  

American Council of Learned Societies/Central ACLS Fellowship Award/Fellow 2018-2019. Research Project Title: Language at the Center of the American Justice System.

Legal Reports and Expert Witness Testimony

Testified and provided expert opinions/reports in multiple criminal cases.
 

Membership (Organizations) 

International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics
American Association of Applied Linguistics 
Southern Economic Association
Association for Business Communication
 

Journal and Professional Boards 

Editorial Board Member: Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association 

Editorial Board of Reviewers: Journal of Business and Technical Communication