Forensic Linguistics: Linguist as detective & expert witness

Linguists are frequently asked to help the police and courts when there is a dispute over the authorship of a written text -- suicide note, abusive or threatening letter, email or text message. In this excerpt from his inaugural lecture, Professor Coulthard explains the concepts he used to help identify the authorship of text messages in a recent murder trial.

The full lecture is available online at: http://streaming.aston.ac.uk/communications_ram/Inaugral_lecture_malcolm_coul...

Aston University is home to the world's first centre for forensic linguistics. Find out more at: www.aston.ac.uk/forensic-linguistics

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[Malachayas]

I so want to specialize on this area.

[werealldoodshey]

this guy's great

[metallifan92]

I had Malcolm last year, and sitting listening to him is so awe inspiring

[mogatsamasego]

@Malachayas Good luck. I studied linguistics. It's a fascinating if tricky subject.

[DLoc0]

awesome thanks

[stevonz333]

does anyone know where i can get like a typical linguistics lecture video? just some typical, maybe first year

[skydivingatnoon]

This area of linguistics, with the advent of instant messaging, is full of wonder. I get so excite.

[TheFreedomly]

Actually always there's something implicit in every written and in every speak, as the filosopher Paul Grice stated in the act of speak, so one of those contribuition is due to the filosopher Paul Grice.

[mrcicciobaciccio]

CIAO

[tomski3]

Hmm, this is the kind of thing I analyse (just because it interests me, I'm not professional, I'm not even at uni quite yet). I'd rather like to do his job actually :).