More wordcrime : solving crime with linguistics
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More wordcrime : solving crime with linguistics
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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内容説明
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.
目次
Part I: Toolkit
1. How to do forensic linguistics
Part II Confronting authority
2. The linguistic tragedy of Hillsborough
3. A pink-handled kitchen devil knife and other fabrications
4. I didn't have a gun
5. All quiet at the endz
6. Wars and words
Part III. The authority to confront
7. Not a case of plagiarism
8. How old? What gender?
9. Alarm and distress
10. The prosecutor of the ICC v the president of Kenya
11. The Facebook murder
12. The sting
Part IV: Life in forensic linguistics
13. Nothing is not important
14. When authorship is not authorship
15. A letter for Mrs Joe
16. The strange prose of Mrs Mottle
17. The love letters of Dr X
18. The invisible Bronski
19. Dissing the opposition
20. The concrete tomb
21. A particularly unpleasant man
22. The mysterious Mr Erdnase
Index
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