More Wordcrime: Solving Crime With Linguistics - Couverture souple

Olsson, Dr John

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ISBN 10 : 1350029645 ISBN 13 : 9781350029644

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skullduggery: John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the worlds top forensic linguists. Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes gone bad, Olsson turns the same tools to the task the power, depth and precision of forensic linguistics. Grammatical curiosities, lexical quirks, typographic stylings and patterns of use can all give away even the most hard-bitten and careful of criminals. And Olsson doesnt stop there. From the giveaway compound nouns of heavy-handed police statements to the startling similarities displayed in what should be individual office accounts, the police are given a run for their money too. Wordcrime is easy to commit -- and hard to escape. More Wordcrime features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death and criminal damage. In approachable and clear prose, he details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals, and how the long arm of the law is prevented from overreaching. This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Olsson has operated a world-renowned forensic linguistics consultancy and training service at www.thetext.co.uk since 1996. He is an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA, where he teaches forensic linguistics online. He is also Visiting Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the International University of Novi Pazar in Serbia where he runs an annual summer school in Forensic Linguistics, and is a board member of the Language and Law Centre at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he is also a visiting Professor. He is the author of Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction (3e, 2013) and Wordcrime (2009).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1350029645
• ISBN 13: 9781350029644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280