Forensic linguistics

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The application of linguistic analysis to legal issues, such as determining authorship or identifying speech patterns.

Language and Law: Study of how language is used in legal contexts, such as courtrooms, legal documents, and legislation.
Language and Crime: Study of language as it relates to criminal activity, such as deception, threats, and hate speech.
Forensic Phonetics: Study of speech sounds as they relate to forensic investigations, including speaker identification and voice analysis.
Forensic Authorship Analysis: Analysis of written texts to determine the authorship, often used in criminal investigations and plagiarism cases.
Forensic Stylistics: Study of the linguistic style of texts, such as sentence structure and vocabulary, used in authorship attribution.
Forensic Semantics: Study of meaning in language as it relates to legal contexts, such as interpreting the meaning of a contract or a statement made in court.
Language and Deception: Study of how language is used to deceive or mislead in communication, particularly in legal contexts.
Language and Power: Study of how language is used to exert power and control, particularly in legal contexts such as cross-examination.
Language and Discrimination: Study of the role of language in perpetuating discriminatory attitudes or practices, particularly in legal contexts such as hate speech laws.
Language and Forensic Interviewing: Study of how language is used in interview settings, particularly in criminal investigations and witness interrogation.
- "Forensic linguistics, legal linguistics, or language and the law, is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure."
- "Understanding language of the written law." - "Understanding language use in forensic and judicial processes." - "The provision of linguistic evidence."
- "It is a branch of applied linguistics."
- "The discipline of forensic linguistics is not homogeneous."
- "It involves a range of experts and researchers in different areas of the field."
- "The forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure."
- "The provision of linguistic evidence."
- "Understanding language of the written law."
- "Language use in forensic and judicial processes."
- "To provide linguistic evidence."
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