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“Inquiry and Evidence-related Applications of Forensic Linguistics: An Analysis”
Abstract
Forensic linguistics has gained popularity over the past few years across many academic fields, particularly in judicial systems, legal and forensic difficulties, investigation, and open-source intelligence globally. The expression often refers to the knowledgeable and exact interpretation provided by forensic linguists after their legal and expert examination of spoken or written language. It is frequently used in legal proceedings, particularly in the criminal justice system. Forensic linguistics is frequently used in the legal system to assess language evidence, whether it is voice-recorded or written, in civil disputes or criminal cases. There are two main reasons for conducting the analysis or examination. When relevant investigations are made to identify witnesses or suspects in particular cases or scenes or to determine the importance of writing or utterance to a case, the analysis is first put to use. Second, forensic linguistics is essential anytime samples of spoken or written language are introduced as evidence in court. Expert testimony on how to evaluate the evidence in these situations is offered by forensic linguists.
Keywords: Inquiry, evidence, applications, forensic, and linguistics.
... Relevant professionals utilise this technique to resolve authorship disputes in a variety of situations, including hurtful communications, abusive behaviour, and threatening acts. According to Nayan and Das (2022), forensic linguists routinely use authorship identification in court proceedings to determine whether a specific suspected person wrote or spoke a specific text by thoroughly and expertly analysing significant language aspects such as idiolect and specific language use patterns such as grammar, spelling, collocations, vocabulary, and pronunciation. ...
... When examining the distinguishing traits of a problematic voice, it is necessary to consider the speaker's ethnic, social, and geographic backgrounds. Voice comparison compares the in-question voice to reference recordings made by a specific speaker who is assumed to have used the in-question voice (Nayan & Das, 2022). Regardless of how denial one is, voice characteristics analysis has inherent limitations because it cannot precisely identify the speaker. ...
... Regardless of how denial one is, voice characteristics analysis has inherent limitations because it cannot precisely identify the speaker. However, Nayan and Das (2022) explain that its use in forensic linguistics is critical because it provides a rich and plentiful source of pertinent information about the likely speaker, giving specialists a high level of certainty and accuracy in determining who might have spoken the ambiguous voice among suspected individuals. ...
This study investigated the threat text messages addressed to victims of gender-based violence (GBV) reported to the Namibian Police Force in Windhoek. The main objectives of this study were to examine the linguistic evidence, features, and choices within threat text messages, investigate the discourse structures of these threat messages, as well as describe the sociolinguistic profiles of the perpetrators of these threat messages. The study adopted a qualitative research approach and used a content checklist analysis to gather data, as well as Linguistic Variation theory paired with Linguistic Profiling Theory to analyse the threatening messages. The results demonstrate a strong link between education, language use, and the propensity for violence, with youth more frequently using informal digital communication to issue threats. Through the identification of linguistic markers and sociolinguistic profiles, this research offers insights into the prevention of gender-based violence by informing law enforcement, legal professionals, and policymakers about the role of language in GBV-related threats and aiding in more effective threat assessment and intervention strategies.
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