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Robert A. Leonard. Robert Andrew Leonard is an American linguist. He is best known for his work in forensic linguistics, which relates to investigating problems of the law by using the study of language. This includes analyzing legal material work such as notes, audio and video tape recordings, contracts, and confessions. [2]
Roger Wellington Shuy (born January 5, 1931, in Akron, Ohio) [1] is an American linguist best known for his work in sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics. [2] [3] He received his BA from Wheaton College in 1952, his MA from Kent State University in 1954, and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 1962, [4] where he studied regional dialectology with Raven I. McDavid, Jr. Shuy took ...
v. t. e. Forensic linguistics, legal linguistics, or language and the law is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure. It is a branch of applied linguistics. Forensic linguistics is an umbrella term covering many applications to ...
A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...
Carole Elisabeth Chaski (born 1955) is a forensic linguist who is considered one of the leading experts in the field. [1] Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of stylometric analysis and inspired further research on the use of this approach for authorship identification. [2]
Robert Leonard may refer to: Robert Sean Leonard (born 1969), American actor. Robert Z. Leonard (1889–1968), American film director. Robert A. Leonard, forensic linguist and original member of Sha Na Na. Robert Leonard (curator) (born 1963), New Zealand art curator. Robert Maynard Leonard (1869–1941), English journalist, editor, and poet.
Claire Hardaker (born 16 January 1981) is a British linguist. She is a professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research involves forensic linguistics and corpus linguistics. Her research focuses on deceptive, manipulative, and aggressive language in a range of online data.
The International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics ( IAFLL ), until 2021 called the 'International Association of Forensic Linguists', is a professional organization consisting primarily of linguists working in fields related to the area of language and law, or forensic linguistics. Areas of expertise include (but are not limited ...