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Today we learn about Forensic Linguistics which is very interesting and fascinating. People might think of the famous CSI television series when we say the word “forensic”. But this Forensic Linguistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics. Forensic Linguistics takes linguistics knowledge and methods and applies them to the forensic context of law, investigation, trial, and punishment. There are three main areas of application for linguists working in forensic context which are understanding language of the written law, understanding language use in forensic and legal process, as well as the condition of linguistics evidence.
Forensic Linguists involve in areas related to crime, crime solving, and assisting wrongly accused people. Some of these areas include voice identification, author identification, and discourse analysis. Few examples of corpora available in Forensic Linguistics are ransom notes, threatening letters, suicide notes, and examination fraud. While the applications of Forensic Linguistics in language research are author or speaker identification, intertextuality, text typing and linguistic profiling.
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