Wordcrime
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Wordcrime

Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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Wordcrime

Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics

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Tell kids not to worry. sorting my life out. be in touch to get some things. Instead of being a simple sms message, this text turned out to be crucial and chilling evidence in convicting the deceptive killer of a mother of two. Sent from her phone, after her death, tell tale signs announce themselves to a forensic linguist. Rarely is a crime committed without there being some evidence in the form of language.
Wordcrime features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death, code deciphering, arson and even genocide. Olsson describes the evidence he gave in each one. In approachable and clear prose, he details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals. 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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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2009
ISBN
9780826434432
Edition
1
Topic
Sprachen & Linguistik
Subtopic
Sprachwissenschaft

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. 1 THE BARREL KILLER
  8. 2 THE BICYCLE MURDER
  9. 3 HEROIN SMUGGLING INTO A PRISON
  10. 4 IS THE DA VINCI CODE PLAGIARISM?
  11. 5 THE DIARY THAT TOLD ALL
  12. 6 THE MAN WITH THE BASEBALL BAT
  13. 7 REPUTABLE BARRISTER OR MANIPULATIVE SVENGALI?
  14. 8 MURDER OR SUICIDE?
  15. 9 WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNY?
  16. 10 A CASE OF MEDICAL DISINFORMATION
  17. 11 STRATEGIES FOR CODE: A PRISONER’S DILEMMA
  18. 12 A GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
  19. 13 DEATH THREATS IN THE TROPICS
  20. 14 FITTED UP BY A ‘PROFESSIONAL’: FALSELY ACCUSED
  21. 15 ON DEATH ROW
  22. 16 BETRAYED BY A FULL STOP
  23. 17 A BLAND PAEDOPHILE
  24. 18PROSECUTOR MEMO LEADS TOABUSE OF PROCESS RULING
  25. 18 PROSECUTOR MEMO LEADS TO ABUSE OF PROCESS RULING
  26. 19 LETTERS FROM ANONYMOUS
  27. 20 RETURN TO SENDER
  28. 21 WAS IT ERNIE OR RONNIE?
  29. 22 THE WITNESS STATED . . . BUT DID HE?
  30. 23 PEOPLE TRAFFICKING AND THE LANGUAGE OF TRAUMA
  31. GLOSSARY
  32. INDEX