#ForensicLinguistics an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through language analysis.
#Linguistics
#Linguistics
Forensic linguistics: how dark web criminals give themselves away with their language
Unmasking dark web criminals isn’t easy, but researchers are figuring out how to use their own language against them.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#ForensicLinguistics an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through language analysis.
#Linguistics
#Linguistics
There is now just one month left to apply for the 7th Forensic Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
#linguistics #forensiclinguistics
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
#linguistics #forensiclinguistics
Applications are now open for the 7th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework.
Apply by 13 December 2025!
div-ling.org/flsc
Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework.
Apply by 13 December 2025!
div-ling.org/flsc
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There is now just one month left to apply for the 7th Forensic Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
#linguistics #forensiclinguistics
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
#linguistics #forensiclinguistics
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Drawing on a corpus of 80 real grooming chatlogs, the study analyses children’s discursive resistance strategies — the ways they use politeness, impoliteness, & conversational tactics to counter manipulation.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics
Drawing on a corpus of 80 real grooming chatlogs, the study analyses children’s discursive resistance strategies — the ways they use politeness, impoliteness, & conversational tactics to counter manipulation.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🧵1/4
Drawing on a corpus of 80 real grooming chatlogs, the study analyses children’s discursive resistance strategies — the ways they use politeness, impoliteness, & conversational tactics to counter manipulation.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics
Drawing on a corpus of 80 real grooming chatlogs, the study analyses children’s discursive resistance strategies — the ways they use politeness, impoliteness, & conversational tactics to counter manipulation.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics
🧵 4/4
This is the first study to quantify how resistance unfolds linguistically in real grooming conversations — providing evidence to inform the design of prevention technologies, training resources, & safeguarding interventions.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #forensiclinguistics
This is the first study to quantify how resistance unfolds linguistically in real grooming conversations — providing evidence to inform the design of prevention technologies, training resources, & safeguarding interventions.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #forensiclinguistics
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🧵 4/4
This is the first study to quantify how resistance unfolds linguistically in real grooming conversations — providing evidence to inform the design of prevention technologies, training resources, & safeguarding interventions.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #forensiclinguistics
This is the first study to quantify how resistance unfolds linguistically in real grooming conversations — providing evidence to inform the design of prevention technologies, training resources, & safeguarding interventions.
#DRAGON #onlinesafety #onlineharms #langsky #forensiclinguistics
TLDR (2/2):
Once embedded, these words quietly reframe debate — turning complex social issues into slogans, and shaping political reality through language itself.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
Once embedded, these words quietly reframe debate — turning complex social issues into slogans, and shaping political reality through language itself.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
TLDR (2/2):
Once embedded, these words quietly reframe debate — turning complex social issues into slogans, and shaping political reality through language itself.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
Once embedded, these words quietly reframe debate — turning complex social issues into slogans, and shaping political reality through language itself.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
TLDR (1/2):
Dr @robtoes.bsky.social explores how reactionary digital spaces have become testing grounds for new political language, with fringe terms moving rapidly from meme culture into mainstream discourse.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
Dr @robtoes.bsky.social explores how reactionary digital spaces have become testing grounds for new political language, with fringe terms moving rapidly from meme culture into mainstream discourse.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
TLDR (1/2):
Dr @robtoes.bsky.social explores how reactionary digital spaces have become testing grounds for new political language, with fringe terms moving rapidly from meme culture into mainstream discourse.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
Dr @robtoes.bsky.social explores how reactionary digital spaces have become testing grounds for new political language, with fringe terms moving rapidly from meme culture into mainstream discourse.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #politicalcommunication #politicaldiscourse
AIFL Thursday Seminars are Back!
Join us fortnightly 4-5pm for our new seminar series!
TOMMOROW! Constructing Idiolect: Using Construction Grammar for cross-genre authorship
Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Dr. Daniela Schneevogt
More info below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...
Join us fortnightly 4-5pm for our new seminar series!
TOMMOROW! Constructing Idiolect: Using Construction Grammar for cross-genre authorship
Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Dr. Daniela Schneevogt
More info below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
JOIN US on November 7th for the latest in our 'Forensic Linguistics AND...' symposium series. Next up is FL AND...History. Sign up for online or in person here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-l...
Forensic Linguistics and History Symposium
The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics invites you all to our interdisciplinary symposium on Forensic Linguistics and History
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It was very exciting to hear Dr @jessaiston.bsky.social on the latest episode of the "Word of Mouth" podcast, discussing her work on the language of the manosphere.
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Word of Mouth - The Language of the Manosphere - BBC Sounds
Michael Rosen hears how words are used as weapons against women
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It was very exciting to hear Dr @jessaiston.bsky.social on the latest episode of the "Word of Mouth" podcast, discussing her work on the language of the manosphere.
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Welcome to Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social. it's great to see the #forensiclinguistics community growing on Bluesky.
November 17, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Welcome to Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social. it's great to see the #forensiclinguistics community growing on Bluesky.
New publication alert!
I'm guest-editing with David Wright a special issue in #forensiclinguistics for the International Journal of Semiotics of Law, out in February. Here's one of the open access advance articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm guest-editing with David Wright a special issue in #forensiclinguistics for the International Journal of Semiotics of Law, out in February. Here's one of the open access advance articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Intentionally Encouraging or Assisting Others to Commit an Offence: The Anatomy of a Language Crime ...
Since at least as far back as the infamous Derek Bentley case of the 1950s in which an unarmed 19-year-old was convicted and executed for murder based on his alleged uttering of the words let him have...
link.springer.com
October 22, 2023 at 5:52 PM
New publication alert!
I'm guest-editing with David Wright a special issue in #forensiclinguistics for the International Journal of Semiotics of Law, out in February. Here's one of the open access advance articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm guest-editing with David Wright a special issue in #forensiclinguistics for the International Journal of Semiotics of Law, out in February. Here's one of the open access advance articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm delighted to say that the Special Issue in #ForensicLinguistics in the Intl Journal Semiotics of Law, edited by David Wright and me, is now published.
Thank you to all the contributors, especially the early career researchers, for your collaboration & patience.
link.springer.com/journal/1119...
Thank you to all the contributors, especially the early career researchers, for your collaboration & patience.
link.springer.com/journal/1119...
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique | Volume 37, issue 2
Volume 37, issue 2 articles listing for International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
link.springer.com
February 14, 2024 at 2:56 PM
GET EDALJI, our new book, will be published in the spring of 2024 with new forensic evidence.
#GeorgeEdalji
#forensiclinguistics
#Edaljicase
#ConanDoyle
#sherlockholmes
#GreatWyrley
#StaffordshirePolice
#GeorgeEdalji
#forensiclinguistics
#Edaljicase
#ConanDoyle
#sherlockholmes
#GreatWyrley
#StaffordshirePolice
October 13, 2023 at 2:46 PM
GET EDALJI, our new book, will be published in the spring of 2024 with new forensic evidence.
#GeorgeEdalji
#forensiclinguistics
#Edaljicase
#ConanDoyle
#sherlockholmes
#GreatWyrley
#StaffordshirePolice
#GeorgeEdalji
#forensiclinguistics
#Edaljicase
#ConanDoyle
#sherlockholmes
#GreatWyrley
#StaffordshirePolice
The next episode of our 🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️ podcast will be out this Friday!
#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#academicsky
#podcast
#truecrime
#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#academicsky
#podcast
#truecrime
April 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The next episode of our 🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️ podcast will be out this Friday!
#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#academicsky
#podcast
#truecrime
#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#academicsky
#podcast
#truecrime
The 1st Asian Biennial Conference for PAFLL is now accepting the FIRST BATCH of abstracts!
DEADLINE: MAY 23, 2025
🔗Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submission Guideline:
build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/abst...
Website: build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/
#ForensicLinguistics #LegalLinguistics
DEADLINE: MAY 23, 2025
🔗Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submission Guideline:
build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/abst...
Website: build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/
#ForensicLinguistics #LegalLinguistics
April 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The 1st Asian Biennial Conference for PAFLL is now accepting the FIRST BATCH of abstracts!
DEADLINE: MAY 23, 2025
🔗Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submission Guideline:
build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/abst...
Website: build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/
#ForensicLinguistics #LegalLinguistics
DEADLINE: MAY 23, 2025
🔗Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submission Guideline:
build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/abst...
Website: build.buksu.edu.ph/pafll25/
#ForensicLinguistics #LegalLinguistics
Today, I had the pleasure of leading a forensic linguistics workshop as part of the Step Up to Swansea Year 12 Taster Day.
I introduced students to how language analysis can help solve real-life crime cases by inviting them to solve a case of their own.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics
I introduced students to how language analysis can help solve real-life crime cases by inviting them to solve a case of their own.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics
May 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today, I had the pleasure of leading a forensic linguistics workshop as part of the Step Up to Swansea Year 12 Taster Day.
I introduced students to how language analysis can help solve real-life crime cases by inviting them to solve a case of their own.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics
I introduced students to how language analysis can help solve real-life crime cases by inviting them to solve a case of their own.
#langsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics
Big interest for a #ForensicLinguistics class, perhaps with a focus on court testimony-no prereq of linguistics. (hoping it will also be a gateway course to boost minor/major.) Any resources, activities, suggestions out there #linguistics #academia Many thanks!
September 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Big interest for a #ForensicLinguistics class, perhaps with a focus on court testimony-no prereq of linguistics. (hoping it will also be a gateway course to boost minor/major.) Any resources, activities, suggestions out there #linguistics #academia Many thanks!
➡️ Season 1 available right now on all podcast channels or from www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
➡️ Season 2 available from Friday 5th September with the Bentley double-bill and thereafter on the first Friday of each month
#podcast
#truecrime
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky
➡️ Season 2 available from Friday 5th September with the Bentley double-bill and thereafter on the first Friday of each month
#podcast
#truecrime
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky
Writing Wrongs
www.aston.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
➡️ Season 1 available right now on all podcast channels or from www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
➡️ Season 2 available from Friday 5th September with the Bentley double-bill and thereafter on the first Friday of each month
#podcast
#truecrime
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky
➡️ Season 2 available from Friday 5th September with the Bentley double-bill and thereafter on the first Friday of each month
#podcast
#truecrime
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky
Just listened to the latest from @languageonthemove.bsky.social & it's one for #ForensicLinguistics fans.
Tazin Abdullah chats to Dr Kate Steel about her work on the #language used by police first responders when interacting with domestic violence victims.
Listen: tinyurl.com/mzxxjrr
#Langsky
Tazin Abdullah chats to Dr Kate Steel about her work on the #language used by police first responders when interacting with domestic violence victims.
Listen: tinyurl.com/mzxxjrr
#Langsky
Police first responders interacting with domestic violence victims
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West of England, in Bristol, UK. We discuss discursive management …
tinyurl.com
October 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Just listened to the latest from @languageonthemove.bsky.social & it's one for #ForensicLinguistics fans.
Tazin Abdullah chats to Dr Kate Steel about her work on the #language used by police first responders when interacting with domestic violence victims.
Listen: tinyurl.com/mzxxjrr
#Langsky
Tazin Abdullah chats to Dr Kate Steel about her work on the #language used by police first responders when interacting with domestic violence victims.
Listen: tinyurl.com/mzxxjrr
#Langsky
This article by @awni-etaywe24.bsky.social is a fascinating & important read.
It echoes the patterns I’ve observed in my own research with Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, particularly around how violent extremists construct in-group identities.
🔗 tinyurl.com/27s8794j
🧵👇
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
It echoes the patterns I’ve observed in my own research with Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, particularly around how violent extremists construct in-group identities.
🔗 tinyurl.com/27s8794j
🧵👇
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use
The language and rhetoric of extremists helps fuel brutal, often deadly, violence. Spotting the strategies can help protect people from radicalisation.
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This article by @awni-etaywe24.bsky.social is a fascinating & important read.
It echoes the patterns I’ve observed in my own research with Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, particularly around how violent extremists construct in-group identities.
🔗 tinyurl.com/27s8794j
🧵👇
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
It echoes the patterns I’ve observed in my own research with Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, particularly around how violent extremists construct in-group identities.
🔗 tinyurl.com/27s8794j
🧵👇
#langsky #forensiclinguistics
Episode 5 of our podcast 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️has been released.
It’s called “Foreygensic Lingeyguistics - Cracking the Killer’s Code”
www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news
You can listen and subscribe for our website or your favourite podcast app
#forensiclinguistics
#truecrime
#langsky
#academicsky
#podcasts
It’s called “Foreygensic Lingeyguistics - Cracking the Killer’s Code”
www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news
You can listen and subscribe for our website or your favourite podcast app
#forensiclinguistics
#truecrime
#langsky
#academicsky
#podcasts
Latest News | Aston University
www.aston.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Episode 5 of our podcast 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️has been released.
It’s called “Foreygensic Lingeyguistics - Cracking the Killer’s Code”
www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news
You can listen and subscribe for our website or your favourite podcast app
#forensiclinguistics
#truecrime
#langsky
#academicsky
#podcasts
It’s called “Foreygensic Lingeyguistics - Cracking the Killer’s Code”
www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news
You can listen and subscribe for our website or your favourite podcast app
#forensiclinguistics
#truecrime
#langsky
#academicsky
#podcasts
"A series of significant educational programs have strengthened the ties between Indonesia and the Philippines, bringing together experts and educators to address critical issues in education, research, and law enforcement."
#ForensicLinguistics
#ForensicLinguistics
Educational Collaboration Strengthens Ties Between Indonesia and the Philippines: Three Key Events Successfully Concluded – BERITA UPI
berita.upi.edu
October 31, 2024 at 11:18 AM
"A series of significant educational programs have strengthened the ties between Indonesia and the Philippines, bringing together experts and educators to address critical issues in education, research, and law enforcement."
#ForensicLinguistics
#ForensicLinguistics
I got the book months ago. But I think now I am finally in the grounded enough headspace to start reading it
#ForensicLinguistics
#ForensicLinguistics
September 3, 2023 at 8:26 AM
I got the book months ago. But I think now I am finally in the grounded enough headspace to start reading it
#ForensicLinguistics
#ForensicLinguistics
"“Each text has the DNA of its author,” one quote states, and that is the motto of this science."
The quote above implies the existence of a linguistic fingerprint, which is not correct. So, a dramatic piece on #ForensicLinguistics but read with caution.
The quote above implies the existence of a linguistic fingerprint, which is not correct. So, a dramatic piece on #ForensicLinguistics but read with caution.
Forensic linguistics: The silent witness of words
It is the science that instructs us that criminals, however clever, always bear the burden of their own words, and that ultimately, the
minutemirror.com.pk
September 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"“Each text has the DNA of its author,” one quote states, and that is the motto of this science."
The quote above implies the existence of a linguistic fingerprint, which is not correct. So, a dramatic piece on #ForensicLinguistics but read with caution.
The quote above implies the existence of a linguistic fingerprint, which is not correct. So, a dramatic piece on #ForensicLinguistics but read with caution.