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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Discipline That Says No to Language Analysis

Forensic linguistics is a branch of forensic science that looks to find out what can we say from linguistic evidence in court, for example. Sometimes being able to say something that is right can either get somebody off when they're innocent or get somebody locked up when they're guilty. The only thing that's really bad is to do the opposite. So I personally do feel that I do work towards trying to develop accountable evidence-based methods like transcribing in distinct audio and other such things.

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