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Informationen zum Autor John Olsson operated a world-renowned forensic linguistics consultancy and training service at www.thetext.co.uk from 1996 onwards. He worked an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA, where he taught forensic linguistics online. He was also Visiting Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia where he ran an annual summer school in Forensic Linguistics, and was a board member of the Language and Law Centre at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he was also a visiting Professor. He was then a lecturer in Forensic Linguistics in both the School of Linguistics and the School of Law at Bangor University, Wales, and was head of the Forensic Linguistics Institute. Zusammenfassung Includes chapters on language in justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. This book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading. It is intended for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 . Previous authorship studies 2. Individuals and language use 3. Evidence in court 4. An authorship enquiry 5. Sampling and authorship 6. Single text enquiries 7. Authorship profiling 8. Detecting plagiarism 9 . Veracity in language 1 0. Language in the justice system 11. Forensic text types 12. Forensic phonetics 13. Forensic transcription A ppendix A: Exercises Appendix B: Texts Index ...