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Forensic Linguistics Exam Complete Answers core areas of linguistics (6) ️phonetics phonology morphology syntax semantics discourse phonetics ️production and interpretation of sound phonology is the rules, while phonetics is the realization phonology ️patterning of sounds ...

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core areas of linguistics (6) ✔️phonetics

phonology

morphology

syntax

semantics

discourse



phonetics ✔️production and interpretation of sound



phonology is the rules, while phonetics is the realization



phonology ✔️patterning of sounds



phonology is the rules, while phonetics is the realization



morphology ✔️words (structure of units that form words)



syntax ✔️sentences (structure of larger units)



semantics ✔️meaning



discourse ✔️organization of language beyond the sentence (discussion, forms of interpretations)



forensic ✔️pertaining to courts, justice, public debate; pertaining to legal proceedings

,forensic linguistics ✔️application of linguistic knowledge and language analysis methods to the law and
legal proceedings



forensic linguistics (history of term) ✔️used in 1980s; by 1990s term and discipline established



forensic linguistic areas (2 'naive' areas) ✔️1. spoken language

2. written language



spoken language ✔️voice/speaker identification (forensic phonetics; forensic dialectology)

- authentication of recordings, linguistic profiling, transcription issues



written language ✔️authorship attribution (forensic stylistics)

- threats, suicide notes, IM, SMS, email

- plagiarism



US legal system ✔️based on common law



Canadian legal system ✔️based on common law AND civil law (Quebec)



common law ✔️in general, rules are not written down as legislation

framework comes from judge-made decisional law which gives precedential authority to prior court
decisions on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions



civil law (Roman law) ✔️most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified into a referable
system which serves as the primary source of law



public law vs. private (civil) law ✔️public laws (ex. constitutional, criminal, administrative); between
society and individuals

, private laws/civil law (ex. contracts, family law, wills, estates, labour law); between individuals



presumption of innocence ✔️the principle that one is considered innocent unless proven guilty

- legal burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which must collect and present compelling evidence
to the trier of fact



part of common law



Canadian law system ✔️two legal systems: common law and civil law



division of powers: federal vs. provincial



public laws vs. private laws



morphological meaning (example case) ✔️(McDonald's/McSleep, see notes)



authorship attribution/analysis (example case) ✔️(Jenny Nicholl, see notes)



forensic linguistics areas (2) ✔️1. language of the legal process

2. language as evidence



language of the legal process ✔️thorough grounding in forensic approaches to language analysis

- critical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to language in language settings

- language of the law

- emergency service calls and police interviewing

- trial discourse



language as evidence ✔️the work of the forensic linguist

- forensic phonetics

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