More Wordcrime

Solving Crime With Linguistics

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-23
Mått:140 x 213 x 18 mm
Vikt:359 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350029644

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John Olsson has operated a world-renowned forensic linguistics consultancy and training service at www.thetext.co.uk since 1996. He is an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA, where he teaches forensic linguistics online. He is also Visiting Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia where he runs an annual summer school in Forensic Linguistics, and is a board member of the Language and Law Centre at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he is also a visiting Professor. He is the author of Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction (3e, 2013) and Wordcrime (2009),

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This is textual analysis as astute psychology, wise, rational and humane. Olsson’s account of his work makes for sometimes grim but compelling reading. Certainly a must-read for any crime writer looking for ideas.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Toolkit1. How to do forensic linguisticsPart II Confronting authority2. The linguistic tragedy of Hillsborough3. A pink-handled kitchen devil knife and other fabrications4. I didn’t have a gun5. All quiet at the endz6. Wars and words Part III. The authority to confront 7. Not a case of plagiarism8. How old? What gender? 9. Alarm and distress10. The prosecutor of the ICC v the president of Kenya11. The Facebook murder12. The stingPart IV: Life in forensic linguistics13. Nothing is not important14. When authorship is not authorship15. A letter for Mrs Joe16. The strange prose of Mrs Mottle17. The love letters of Dr X 18. The invisible Bronski19. Dissing the opposition20. The concrete tomb21. A particularly unpleasant man 22. The mysterious Mr Erdnase Index