The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

This Element presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert
linguistic evidence in 1959, through early work in the 1970s-1980s, the defining of the …

Credibility assessments in asylum visa applications have attracted criticism across diverse
research fields. This article builds on existing critical examinations by presenting a case …

Many criminal investigations involve the collection of covert (secret) audio recordings,
typically via intercepting telephone calls, or 'bugging'houses and cars. These and other …

Like many other natural languages, Ancient Greek has linguistic mechanisms to codify a
statement's ironic sense and its understanding by interlocutors. These irony markers—which …

This Element explores the sentiment and keyword features in both authorship profiling and
authorship attribution in social media texts in the Chinese cultural context. The key findings …

What are speech data? The question is not as trivial as it may seem: every day both
theoretical and applied linguistic research come up against problems deriving from bad data …

This exploratory study sets out to investigate the potential distinctiveness of emoji use on the
social media platform Instagram. The use of emoji has become popular in digital media, as …

The focus of this article is forensic linguistics as applied to gender-based violence (GBV), a
current social problem which persists despite the many measures adopted to eradicate it …

'Forensic linguistics' has somewhat evaded straightforward definition since its formalisation
as a distinct and coherent branch of linguistics in the early 1990s [11]. In one of the …