Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
Describe and reflect on the notion of "language crimes" and "hate speech."
Critically evaluate a range of limitations relating to the presentation of linguistic evidence in a legal setting.
Identify and describe the challenges faced during trademark disputes and the collection of voice description testimony in a legal context.
Analyse written texts using basic authorship attribution techniques.
Apply analytical tools/theories from other areas of language and linguistics to forensic linguistic data.
Create a poster or oral presentation to describe the use of forensic linguistics or forensic audio analysis in a real-life criminal case.
Indicative Module Content:
The following topics will be addressed in this module:
Language crimes
Language attitudes and bias in a legal context
Hate speech
Earwitnessing
Translation and intercultural communication in a legal context
Trademark disputes
Authorship attribution analysis
Evidential standards
Presenting linguistic evidence in a legal context