Speech and recordings
Live speech, audio and video recordings, voice messages, and transcripts.
PROFESSIONAL PILLAR / 01
When language
becomes evidence.
Forensic linguistics applies linguistic theories, methods, and techniques to examine language issues in legal contexts, the evaluation of evidence, dispute resolution, and institutional matters.
MATERIALS FOR EXAMINATION
Understanding the whole message.
Documents and texts
Letters, legal documents, official examination records (BAP), and other written texts.
Digital communication
Instant messages, digital conversations, social media, posts, and comments.
Multimodal communication
Relationships between text, images, symbols, audio, video, typography, and layout.
AREAS OF ANALYSIS
The right method for every question.
Phonetics and phonology
Features of speech, sounds, dialects, accents, and phonological patterns within the scope of linguistic expertise.
Morphology and syntax
Word forms, sentence structure, modality, negation, and structural ambiguity.
Semantics and pragmatics
Meaning, reference, presuppositions, speech acts, implicatures, and meaning in context.
Discourse and conversation
Relationships between utterances, turn-taking, context, and relationships between participants.
Authorship and corpora
Comparison of linguistic features, frequencies, collocations, and patterns of language use.
Sociolinguistics and multimodality
Variation, register, style, social identity, and relationships between modes of communication.
APPLICATIONS
Scientific support in legal proceedings.
Analysis may cover data concerning honor and reputation, threats, hatred, deception, digital communication, and the language of legal documents and official examination records (BAP). Findings are presented alongside the methods, alternative interpretations, and limitations.
Linguistic opinions explain language characteristics. Determining guilt, the elements of an offense, criminal responsibility, and judgments remains the authority of legal institutions. Forensic linguistics also has a different scope from technical digital forensic examination.
OPEN TO COLLABORATION
Together, building
expertise that matters.
Advance education, research, and professional practice together.