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Forensic Linguistics

Forensic linguistics is the application of linguistic knowledge and methods to legal contexts. It has several branches including forensic stylistics, forensic dialectology, and forensic phonetics. Forensic linguistics can be used to analyze language in legal texts, legal processes like trials, and provide linguistic evidence. It has applications in identifying authors of documents, analyzing witness testimony, and investigating crimes through evidence like phone calls.

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Forensic Linguistics

Forensic linguistics is the application of linguistic knowledge and methods to legal contexts. It has several branches including forensic stylistics, forensic dialectology, and forensic phonetics. Forensic linguistics can be used to analyze language in legal texts, legal processes like trials, and provide linguistic evidence. It has applications in identifying authors of documents, analyzing witness testimony, and investigating crimes through evidence like phone calls.

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Forensic Linguistics

INSTRUCTOR: USAMA MUNEER


Index

• Introduction
• What is Forensic Linguistics
• Applications and branches of Forensic linguistics
• Forensic Linguistics in real-life
• cases
• Conclusion
Introduction

Forensic linguistics is the application of linguistic knowledge methods and


insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial,
and judicial procedure.
Forensic linguistics is a branch of applied linguistics which is based on
the study, understanding and use of the language for forensic purposes.
From now on we are going to refer to Forensic Linguistics as FL
Forensic linguistics tells us how conversations are constructed.
The kinds of moves speakers or writers make in a conversation or a
written text.
The words and their meaning are very relevant and they can vary
depending on the context.
Forensic Linguistics

It deals with the kind of language and behaviour of people.

Uses: Forensic stylistics


Forensic dialectology
Forensic phonetics
Forensic Linguistics
Areas of legal research:
- Language of legal texts Acts of Parliament, private
wills or court judgements)
- Language of legal processes (cross examination,
testimonies in court, evidence presentation and so on)
Applications and Branches
Applications

Three major areas:

1. The language of law

2. Language in legal processes

3. Linguistic evidence in legal proceeding

- Levels to analyse forensic linguistic: graphic, phonetic,


morphologic, syntax, lexicon and paradigmatic and
discourse analysis.
Applications and Branches

Identification of two large documents so that you can solve problems


regarding to authenticity. This kind of process is nowadays more and
more developed by computers. It is not enough to discover if the texts
are similar or different, we have to know in which aspects they have
significant similarities. Length of the corpora = key
Law language
Judicial procedure language
Linguistic evidence in judicial procedure
Applications and Branches

Branches

 Sexual Offenses

 Citizens' emergency calls

 Witness and suspects in interviews

 Police interviews in judicial process.


TYPES OF FORENSIC TEXTS
Emergency call.
Threat communication.
Suicide letters.
Death row statements.
NEW APPROACHES
Terrorism cases.
Cross-cultural communication.
Similarities in large corpora.
Multimodal aspects of victim's narrative.
Confessions and denials by public persons
SEXUAL OFFENSES

Verbal harrasment
Physical harrasment
Abusive language
Comments
Embarrassing questions
Employment conditions and sexual favors
Hate Mail
Mobile phone texts
Kidnapping

Police photograph offenders when they register.


CITIZENS‘ EMERGENCY CALLS

◦The information provide in them belongs to the field of forensic linguistics.

12

Assesment about the incidents 10

1. Urgently
8

Columna 1
6 Columna 2
Columna 3

2. Seriousness 4

3. Potential criminality 2

0
Fila 1 Fila 2 Fila 3 Fila 4

Calls for police assistance play a significant role.


CITIZENS‘ EMERGENCY CALLS
Operators’ skills
Intonation
VoiceSpeech
 Timely responses
Cooperation
How to discover a hoax call
Hesitation
Incomplete or short answers
Avoid giving information
Witness and suspects in interviews
Three major aspects:

to identify the criminal.


to locate and aprehend the culprit.


to prove is guilt in court.


Tools: instrumentation, information and interview and interrogation.


Police interviews in the judicial process

Te formal interview is a key part of any investigation.

The interview has a significant fuction as a piece of evidence, exhibited and

presented in court.

Words spoken have a dual context and a dual function.


FL in real-life: cases
• FL is used nowadays
• in many judicial procedures.
Case 1: Analysis of phone calls
The murder of the man who
was working at an undertakers
Case 2: Analysis of letters
Unabomber
Case 3: Plagiarism
Lara vs. Formoso
Conclusion

To conclude I will say that Forensic Linguistics, as we have seen


during this, could usefully help to solve many different kind of cases,
among other applications, such as the ones we have explain in this
work.

I really hope you have enjoyed this, and you have some more
interest in Forensic Linguistics
Thanks!

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