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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Part One Toolkit; 1 How to do forensic linguistics; The role of the expert; Preliminary steps; Beginning the analysis; The examination; Overall approach; Observations of linguistic phenomena; Spelling and orthography; Grammar; Lexicon; Idiom; Identical expressions; Conclusion; Note; Part Two Confronting authority; 2 The linguistic tragedy of Hillsborough; Suppressing the truth; Finding a form of words; Parallel deceptions; Notes; 3 A pink-handled kitchen devil knife and other fabrications; 4 I didn't have a gun
- 5 All quiet at the endzNote; References; 6 Wars and words; Reason versus emotion; To make war use words; The weapons of war; Reason is not a weapon of war, but emotion works; Shifting the discourse; Define the discourse; Myth making; Notes; Part Three The authority to confront; 7 Not a case of plagiarism; Illustration 1: Mid-term and final essay; 8 How old? What gender?; Notes; 9 Alarm and distress; 10 The prosecutor of the ICC v the president of Kenya; Background; The difficulties of international criminal prosecution; Witness statements; Plagiarism
- Practicalities of statement-making in the international contextExamples of some similarities across the documents; Example 1; Example 2; Example 3; Conclusion; Quality of evidence; Notes; References; 11 The Facebook murder; 12 The sting; The emails; The text messages; Part Four Life in forensic linguistics; 13 Nothing is not important; 14 When authorship is not authorship; Note; 15 A letter for Mrs Joe; Notes; 16 The strange prose of Mrs Mottle; Note; 17 The love letters of Dr X; 18 The invisible Bronski; Redundancy and legalistic language; Cross-textual cohesion; Note
- 19 Dissing the opposition20 The concrete tomb; Kocher Ưexample 1; Kocher Ưexample 2; Kocher Ưexample 3; Kocher Ưexample 4; Kocher Ưexample 5; Kocher Ưexample 6; Kocher Ưexample 7; Kocher Ưexample 8; Christophe Ưexample 1; Christophe Ưexample 2; Questioned email excerpt 1; Questioned email excerpt 2; Questioned email excerpt 3; Questioned email excerpt 4; 21 A particularly unpleasant man; Text set JMH8; Text set JMH9; Text set JMH10; Text set JMH11; 22 The mysterious Mr Erdnase; Aspects of vocabulary: Very long words; Notes; Index