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Root number
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492927 |
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Semester
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FS2025 |
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Type of course
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Lecture |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (BA FS & MA Lecture Language and Linguistics) (UNGRADED) |
| Description |
This course is, as the name suggests, a broad overview of the key principles and sub-disciplines within the field of Forensic Linguistics i.e., a domain that sits at the intersection of language and law, but also that of academic scholarship and public governance.
Week by week we will explore how the diverse but complementary theoretical frameworks of several (socio)linguistic genres underpin the field, namely language variation and change, critical discourse studies, philosophy of language, and translation studies. This will be done through a survey of forensic linguistic applications, methods, and principal issues, that starts with forensic phonetic themes such as speaker comparison and profiling (i.e., deducing the identity of a voice in audio evidence), and then moves on to how sociophonetic science is used in the asylum/immigration context – Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO). Similarly, identification practices with written texts will be discussed e.g., in authorship analysis of death threat mail and suicide letters, alongside the multimodal examination of trademark infringements.
After evidential forensic applications, we will focus on the interactional disparities and influence created via the language employed by both perpetrators and officials in crimes, legal proceedings and operations, including contexts like cyber trolling and grooming, the co-construction of court discourse, police interviews and Miranda rights, false confessions, as well as rhetorical strategies for the elicitation of sensitive information by undercover agents in terrorist groups. For several of these themes, lead practitioners and scholars in the UK and Switzerland will present guest lectures on their work/research. Finally, we will discuss the role of an “expert linguist” in practice, and address the question of ethical and professional obligation: are linguists morally bound to assist/intervene in legal casework?
*Content warning for this course: gun violence, sexual/physical abuse, suicide.
Required Reading: Weekly obligatory texts will be uploaded to ILIAS in PDF form shortly before the course start. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Hannah Joy Black Hedegard, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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3 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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Wednesday 14/5/2025 12:15-15:00
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum 104, Hauptgebäude H4
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Hörraum 201, Hauptgebäude H4
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Hörraum F 021, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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