An Example of Forensic Linguistics

For example, a board of directors might want to assess corporate communications to determine if there were instances, or a pattern, of discrimination in human resources. While there may be huge numbers of relevant documents, techniques of corpus and linguistic analysis can make the process manageable by greatly reducing the number of documents that need to be examined. Conversely, a legal or security team may need to know whether a particular text or recording has linguistic characteristics that could either implicate or eliminate a suspect. Careful analysis by a forensic linguist can reveal this.

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