Forensic Linguistics: Second Edition: An Introduction To Language, Crime and the LawFirst published in 2004, John Olsson's practical introduction to Forensic Linguistics has become required reading for courses on this new and expanding branch of applied linguistics. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and includes new chapters on language in the justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. The book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading. This unique, hands-on introduction to Forensic Linguistics, based on Olsson's extensive experience as a practising forensic linguist, is essential reading for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time. |
Contents
1 What is Forensic Linguistics? | 1 |
2 Previous authorship studies | 17 |
3 Individuals and language use | 25 |
4 Variation | 33 |
5 Authorship comparison | 41 |
6 Evidence in court | 63 |
7 Nonauthorship cases | 68 |
8 Authorship profiling | 94 |
10 Veracity in language | 110 |
11 Forensic text types | 128 |
12 Forensic phonetics | 155 |
13 Notes on forensic transcription | 188 |
Appendices | 195 |
Notes | 244 |
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Common terms and phrases
acoustic addressee appear asked auditory phonetics Authorship Authorship authorship comparison Authorship of hate baby caller Carlos the Jackal claimed closed vowels Computational linguistics confession context conversation corpus court creaky voice crime Cusum Daubert death row defendant Derek Bentley diary entries domain by virtue emergency call English evidence example excerpt expert fact Forensic Linguistics Forensic Phonetics forensic text formants frequency function words genre given going hate mail Authorship important incriminating individual issue language letter linguistic fingerprint look Malicious communication markedness mean memo mobile phone non-incriminating operator person phrase pitch plagiarism police officers prosecutor Public domain punctuation question records referred sample sentence sequence Smith Sound illustration speaker spectrogram speech stalked the night statement analysis structure style suicide note suspect syntactic telephone tell text type threat Timothy John Evans transcribed transcription variation vocal folds voice vowel words writing