Sentence examples for forensic linguists from inspiring English sources

Foster's disgrace left most forensic linguists feeling cautious.

When legal teams need to prove or disprove the authorship of key texts, they call in the forensic linguists.

"I don't know any forensic linguists who will claim that they can find the answer for you," Shuy said.

Whether e-mailing, texting, or writing a thirty-five-thousand-word manifesto, Hitt says, we all leave verbal "breadcrumb trails" that forensic linguists can put to Holmesian use.

But, according to forensic linguists, meaning is far more vaporous, teased into existence through vocalized puffs of air, hand gestures, body tilts, dancing eyebrows, and nuanced nostril flares.

Increasingly in the courtroom, however, forensic linguists have been asked to weigh in on matters of "author identification" — not to determine the grammatical significance of certain words but to identify who said or wrote them.

In preparing his testimony, Leonard consulted with his frequent partner, James Fitzgerald, a retired F.B.I. forensic linguist.

A behavioural analyst, geographic profiler and forensic linguist - careers you were never offered at school - added their ha'p'orth.

A typical New Orleans scandal involving a landfill and federal allegations of bribery completely imploded recently, when a forensic linguist analyzed a series of online comments.

Seven years ago, for example, Donald Foster, the Vassar English professor and self-styled "forensic linguist," fingered Joe Klein as the author of "Primary Colors" from Klein's use of punctuation and adverbs.

By Jack Hitt December 16, 2012 A typical New Orleans scandal involving a landfill and federal allegations of bribery completely imploded recently, when a forensic linguist analyzed a series of online comments.