Suleyman Demirel University (SDU)
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Asked 5 June 2014
How do lawyers use forensic linguistics in courts?
I am interested in knowing how lawyers use their knowledge of language to find different interpretations of texts in police records.
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Have you read Jay Levinson's book Questioned Documents: A lawyers handbook? It is supposed to be the text for lawyers on document analysis. I have some experience, learned on the job of determining syntactic structure to see if there might be any question whether a witness was the actual author of their statement of whether it was 'suggested' to them.
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Have you read Jay Levinson's book Questioned Documents: A lawyers handbook? It is supposed to be the text for lawyers on document analysis. I have some experience, learned on the job of determining syntactic structure to see if there might be any question whether a witness was the actual author of their statement of whether it was 'suggested' to them.
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American University of Sharjah
Thank you, Barry. I have had a quick look at the book contents. It seems that it is what I want.
Harvard Medical School
laweres typivaly slightly change the meaning of termjs. =Pay attention and ask for his defiinition.
Government of Tamil Nadu
Experts only can handle Forensic linguistics.Any wrong handling can create mess.
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