Forensic linguistics. The use of language analysis in court cases and prosecutor’s proceedings
PIK 2019/2020
Dear Students,
The ILCRC invites you to participate in the workshop on forensic linguistics. Forensic linguistics is a branch of applied linguistics whose research focuses on law and court proceedings. This research relates to facts, phenomena, events or language processes that provide evidence for the purposes of criminal and civil proceedings.
Thematic scope: trademarks, copyrights, recognition of plagiarism, automatic recognition of speakers, profiling (anonyms, suicide letters), identification of refugee origin, language and abuse of relationship (mobbing, stalking, use of critical position, abuse of trust), linguist as an judicial expert.
We will discuss selected court cases based on evidence provided by forensic linguistics specialists, including: Unabomber, Little Dolly v. Little Debbie, McDonald’s Restaurants v. Quality Inns International, Victoria’s Secret v. Victor’s Little Secrets, Lindbergh kidnapping, Jon Benét Ramsey assassination, Kurt Cobain’s suicide.
Applications should be sent to: legal-communication@uw.edu.pl
Places available: 20 people. Recruitment based on the order of applications until the limit is reached.
Dates (each for 4 academic hours): 28.03., 25.04., 30.05., 06.06.
dr hab. Joanna Osiejewicz