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advanced forensic language analysis
African American English
analysis
Applied Linguistics
Author_Gerald R. McMenamin
authorship
Authorship Identification
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Dependent Nouns
Discrete Combinatorial System
DNA Analogy
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Forensic Contexts
Forensic Stylistics
Hawaiian Creole English
identification
Korean Writing
Korean Writing System
KWIC Concordance
language variation studies
legal case linguistics
Linguistic Applications
linguistic evidence analysis
Linguistic Stylistics
Los Angeles
Manuscript Sheets
multilingual authorship cases
quantitative text analysis
Questioned Confession
Ransom Letter
Ransom Note
Request Writings
scientific writing identification
Significant Dissimilarities
Sino Korean Words
Spanish Language
stylistic
stylistics
suspect
Suspect Writer
Usted Tiene
variation
writer
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- ISBN 9780849309663
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ted Kaczynski's manifesto.
The ransom note for Jon Benét Ramsey.
The anthrax letters threatening our government and media agencies.
With the aid of forensic linguistics, the words criminals leave behind in their unsigned letters can be as distinctive as a signature or voice. Although the linguistic study of language is well established, this important analytical tool is something new for many jurors, judges, attorneys, and other forensic specialists dealing with both criminal and civil cases. Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics provides an introduction to the field for those who need to understand what linguist-witnesses do, and aids those experts who need to talk about what they do in non-technical terms.
Stylistics is an identification method which seeks to match one piece of writing to another by analyzing such factors as spelling, text arrangement, abbreviations, word formation, characteristic words and phrases, and syntax. Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics documents current advances in this field, including quantitative methods of data analysis, a new way to provide scientific standardization, and new research directed at providing baseline data for determining the significance of style markers.
The book begins with concise coverage of linguistics and writing. It then focuses on the specifics of stylistics, including summaries of over 70 authorship cases. Finally, it presents chapters covering style and stylistics in Spanish, Gujarati, Korean, and Japanese. With a clear and comprehensive presentation, Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics helps readers understand recent advances in the theory and method of forensic stylistics for authorship identification.
