Olsson, John, 1951-

Forensic linguistics / John Olsson. - 2nd ed. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2008. - viii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-251) and index.

Introduction; 1. Previous authorship studies; 2. Individuals and language use; 3. Evidence in court; 4. An authorship enquiry; 5. Sampling and authorship; 6. Single text enquiries; 7. Authorship profiling; 8. Detecting plagiarism; 9. Veracity in language; 10. Language in the justice system; 11. Forensic text types; 12. Forensic phonetics; 13. Forensic transcription; Appendix A: Exercises; Appendix B: Texts; Index.

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Forensic linguistics.

363.25 OLS