FOR72270 - Discourse as Evidence

(3 units)

This course provides an overview of the methodological approaches to language analysis, with an emphasis on the language of police interrogations, emergency calls, victim-witness and witness statements, confessions, and criminal threats. The course also examines the relationship of forensic linguistics to the judicial process, such as admissibility in court and the numerous roles of forensic linguists in informing the judicial system related to a range of domestic and international legal issues.