About this episode
Stefan Gries discusses the growing importance of linguistics in the legal field, focusing on authorship attribution and legal interpretation.
Language and the law is a field growing in size and importance. While some forensic linguistics applications -- e.g. authorship attribution -- have a wider tradition, this growth is particularly acute in the domain of legal interpretation, which is increasingly using corpus data and methods. Stefan Gries, Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, discusses two recent applications. One is from recent work as an expert witness for a law firm; it is a more quantitative application and concerned with authorship attribution in an internet trolling case. The other is concerned with more quantitative and qualitative research for an amicus brief to the Supreme Court. Series: "GRIT Talks" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 41041]
People in this episode
Guest: Stefan Gries
Topics covered
- forensic linguistics
- legal interpretation
- authorship attribution
- corpus data
- amicus brief
Keywords
- forensic linguistics
- legal interpretation
- authorship attribution
- corpus data
- amicus brief
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Organizations: UC Santa Barbara, law firm, Supreme Court
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