John Olsson

More Wordcrime (eBook, PDF)

Solving Crime With Linguistics

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Produktbeschreibung

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic linguists specialising in authorship.

Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes gone bad to allegations of university plagiarism, Olsson turns the same tools to the task - the power, depth and precision of forensic linguistics. Grammatical curiosities, lexical quirks, typographic stylings and patterns of use can all give away even the most hard-bitten and careful of criminals. And Olsson doesn't stop there. From the giveaway compound nouns of heavy-handed police statements to the startling similarities displayed in what should be individual office accounts, officials in high places are given a run for their money too. Wordcrime is easy to commit - and hard to escape. More Wordcrime features a series of gripping cases involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death and criminal damage. In approachable and clear prose, Dr Olsson details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat criminals, and how even those in power can be held to account.

This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350029668
• Artikelnr.: 54677662

Autorenporträt

John Olsson operated a world-renowned forensic linguistics consultancy and training service at www.thetext.co.uk from 1996 onwards. He worked an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA, where he taught forensic linguistics online. He was also Visiting Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia where he ran an annual summer school in Forensic Linguistics, and was a board member of the Language and Law Centre at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he was also a visiting Professor. He was then a lecturer in Forensic Linguistics in both the School of Linguistics and the School of Law at Bangor University, Wales, and was head of the Forensic Linguistics Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Toolkit 1. How to do forensic linguistics Part II Confronting
authority 2. The linguistic tragedy of Hillsborough 3. A pink-handled
kitchen devil knife and other fabrications 4. I didn't have a gun 5. All
quiet at the endz 6. Wars and words Part III. The authority to confront 7.
Not a case of plagiarism 8. How old? What gender? 9. Alarm and distress 10.
The prosecutor of the ICC v the president of Kenya 11. The Facebook murder
12. The sting Part IV: Life in forensic linguistics 13. Nothing is not
important 14. When authorship is not authorship 15. A letter for Mrs Joe
16. The strange prose of Mrs Mottle 17. The love letters of Dr X 18. The
invisible Bronski 19. Dissing the opposition 20. The concrete tomb 21. A
particularly unpleasant man 22. The mysterious Mr Erdnase Index