r/forensiclinguistics

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Language and Law

A subreddit dedicated to the branch of linguistics which focuses on applications to forensic and judicial processes, legal textual analysis, and language in the courtroom.

Created Mar 13, 2013

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Forensic linguistics

Defined as the application of linguistic knowledge, methods and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure.

Uses of linguistics in the courtroom include:

Author identification
Forensic stylistics
Discourse analysis
Dialectology
Forensic phonetics and transcription
Linguistic fingerprinting

Links of interest:

What is forensic linguistics?

International Association of Forensic Linguists

International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics

Webcasts of judicial proceedings in the US

Famous trials throughout history

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Old Bailey proceedings project

Legal dictionary

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r/linguistics - General linguistics discussion

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