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. |
Contents
Previous authorship studies | 17 |
Individuals and language use | 25 |
Variation | 33 |
Copyright | |
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Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction To Language, Crime and the Law John Olsson Limited preview - 2008 |
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acoustic addressee appear applied 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 important incriminating individual issue kind 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 tell tense text type threat Timothy John Evans transcribed transcription variation vocal folds voice vowel words writing