An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics

Auteur

Adrian Leemann is Professor of German Sociolinguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Ria Perkins works as a civil servant for the Ministry of Defence, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics in Birmingham, UK.

Grace Sullivan Buker is a Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication at Northeastern University, USA.

Paul Foulkes is Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of York, UK.

Texte du rabat

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations.

Contenu

About the authors

Acknowledgments

Copyright credits

Chapter 1: Introduction to the book

Chapter 2: Introduction to phonetic analysis

Chapter 3: Speaker profiling

Chapter 4: Speaker comparison

Chapter 5: Earwitness evidence

Chapter 6: Authentication, enhancement, and speech content determination

Chapter 7: Linguistic analysis in the asylum procedure (LAAP)

Chapter 8: Grounding theory Introduction to linguistic analysis

Chapter 9: Language and meaning

Chapter 10: Language of the judicial process

Chapter 11: Authorship profiling

Chapter 12: Comparative authorship analysis

Chapter 13: Expert witnesses

Index