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Tim Grant is Professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, where he is Director of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. He is an experienced academic, whose publications include The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2022), Language and Online Identities: The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime (with N. McLeod for Cambridge UP, 2020), Qualitative Research Methods for Linguists (with U. Clark et al. for Routledge, 2017), along with papers in leading journals in the field, such as Discourse and Society, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, and Discourse, Context & Media. His work as a practiciones forensic linguist has helped resolve numerous cases nationally and internationally, which relate to the criminal law, issues of national security, and civil and arbitration disputes.
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https://timgrantforensiclinguist.com/about/
A taxonomy of authorship analysis – cases, possibilities and controversies
This talk examines the types of cases that occur as a practitioner forensic linguist and how these cases are supported by linguistic It describes the existing research base and asks what makes an authorship analysis more or less reliable. Further to this, I will examine theories of idiolect, of authorship and of textual production and show how they can or should support what we do and should not do in this important area of applied linguistics practice. The talk will draw in part on ideas and cases in the recent publication The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis which is available for free download from here: ➡️ LINK ⬅️
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PID 041/2022-2023
PID ID2022/085
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