Wordcrime

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.

What emerges most strikingly in this book is the creative aspect of language and the broad nature of the field of linguistics.

• Introduction \ Part 1 \ 1.The barrel killer \ 2. The bicycle murder \ 3. Heroin smuggling into a prison \ 4.Did the Da Vinci Code plagiarise the works of other authors? \ 5. The Diary that told all \ 6. The man with the baseball bat \ 7. Reputable barrister or manipulative Svengali? \ Part II \ 8. Murder or suicide? \ 9. What happened to Jenny \ 10. A case of medical disinformation \ 11. Strategies for code: a prisoner's dilemma \ 12. A genocide in Rwanda \ 13. Death threats in the Tropics \ 14. Fitted up by a 'professional': falsely accused \ 15. On death row \ Part III \ 16. Betrayed by a full stop \ 17. A bland paedophile \ 18. Prosecutor memo leads to abuse of process ruling \ 19. Letters from Anonymous \ 20. Return to sender \ 21. Was it Ernie or Ronnie? \ 22. The witness stated...but did he? \ 23. People trafficking and the language of trauma \ Glossary \ Bibliography \ Index