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Problemy Współczesnej Kryminalistyki

Vol. 21 (2017)

Artykuły

Forensic linguistics in English-speaking countries

  • Martyna Grądziel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52097/pwk.5514  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2023-06-06

Abstract

Forensic linguistics has been practiced as a discipline of forensic science for decades, however, many authors still describe it as a new domain. The lack of interest in possibilities provided by linguistic analysis, not only in the process of identification
of an unknown author of a text (linguistic profiling) but also in the process of proving a person guilty, for example, by means of ascribing authorship to a person orestablishing of the intentions of the author of a text, has been especially clear in Poland.
The article focuses on the functioning of forensic linguistics in English speaking countries because in these countries the discipline is developing faster than anywhere else. It presents a short description of the main scope of application of linguistic analysis in the process of administration of justice and discusses the linguistic research methods which are applied the most frequently in this area, providing examples ofpractical application of specific types of analysis. 

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