Forensic Linguistic Analysis

Forensic Linguistics is the application of linguistic methods to analyse language in a legal or criminal context.

It involves the analysis of language in a wide range of diverse situations, from trademark disputes to understanding the meaning of a word or phrase in a legal context, to identifying authorship of disputed statements, and determining the truth or falsity of a statement to assist criminal investigations.

QED provides forensic linguistic services to assist professional investigators with textual analysis in the course of their investigations, addressing issues such as:

Deception in Written Statements
Forensic linguistic analysis can help establish whether or not the author is telling the truth. Click here to see an example of how analysis identifies markers of deception.

Authorship Attribution
Forensic linguistic analysis can help identify the author of a particular document by comparing the author's linguistic style with other documents known to have been written by him or her. Click here to see an example of how a person's style can be identified.

Characterisation
Forensic linguistic analysis can help infer what kind of person wrote a particular document. For instance where did the author originate from and the author's gender. Forensic linguistic analysis can also help establish how the text was produced (e.g. written, dictated, edited, etc.).

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