Author identification from opposing perspectives in forensic linguistics
| Autor: | Ernst Kotzé |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 28:185-197 |
| ISSN: | 1727-9461 1607-3614 |
| DOI: | 10.2989/16073614.2010.519111 |
| Popis: | In this article, two cases of crimen iniuria are reported in which the suspect could be identified, on the basis of a forensic linguistic analysis, as the author of defamatory documents—one which resulted in litigation and an eventual conviction, and one which was dealt with intra-institutionally by the authorities concerned subsequent to the submission of the analyst's report. The investigations took the form of a comparison, as is usual in cases of this nature, between documents known to have been authored by the suspect and contested documents, which were either anonymous or sent under a pseudonym. From a methodological perspective, the investigation was partly done deductively, by attempting to falsify the hypothesis of independent, or separate, authorship through a quantitative (stylometric) analysis, and partly inductively, by subsequently undertaking a stylistic analysis to compile a linguistic profile of the author concerned. In this way, the deduction that the texts for which separate au... |
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