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Drawing upon a unique forensic linguistic project on online undercover policing the authors further understanding of language and identity.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Experimental results; 4. Training identity assumption; 5. Resources and constraints in abuse identity performance; 6. Contexts for linguistic investigative advice; 7. Implications and future directions.
About the author
Tim Grant is the UK's only Professor of Forensic Linguistics, at Aston University, providing academic research and expert investigative assistance to UK and overseas police forces as well as providing evidence for both prosecution and defence and in civil cases. He is a former President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists.Nicci MacLeod is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Northumbria University. She has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, and provided expert reports to several police forces as well as to solicitors and private clients in criminal and civil cases.
Summary
Drawing upon a unique forensic linguistic project on undercover policing of online sexual crime, in this book the authors develop a novel theory of linguistic identity. The exploration of language and identity will appeal to students and researchers of forensic linguistics, and in sociolinguistic work more widely.
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'The authors should be commended for their incredibly important work in this area. The field of forensic linguistics is better for it, not only for how it has already helped law enforcement, but also for the ways in which we can use the information presented here to help protect the vulnerable in the future in an ever-increasingly online world.' Karen E. Lillie, State University of New York, Fredonia
