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Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner. Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics Personal: https://timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/
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The countdown begins! Next Friday, 7th March, Dr Nicci MacLeod and I are launching our podcast series with release of the first three episodes of Writing Wrongs. This is to mark 75 years since the hanging of Timothy Evans on 9th March 1950.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

It's the moment you've all been waiting for - subscribe now to Writing Wrongs, the podcast from AIFL. First episodes drop 7th March 2025! Listen to the trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @timgrant123.bsky.social @drniccimacleod.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We'd like to share our next CPD training course! We'll talk about the types of linguistic evidence admitted to Court in the English and Welsh Legal System Where? Online When? Friday, April 11 (12-2pm UK time) For booking and more information: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Join us in April for our next CPD event for legal professionals!

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So I'm definitely giving this publication a boost as l personally happen to know that it's the first author's first publication (and from their MA thesis). ;-) And it’s an excellent and interesting article! crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #academicsky #forensiclinguistics

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New and unusual publication! Crime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the Public by @drabigailboucher.bsky.social myself! @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social @empowell.bsky.social #academicsky #forensiclinguistics link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This is an exciting new arrival. An update to Larry Solan and Peter Tiersma’s seminal 2005 book “Speaking of Crime” A couple of years ago Larry involved Tammy Gales in writing a second edition, in memory of Peter. And sadly with Larry’s death last year, Tammy was left to finish the job.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

One of the architects of LIWC @ryanboyd.io got in touch about our paper – he’s written this blog post about www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan... First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a fantastic book. We so enjoyed our discussions with Kate about the murders at 10 Rillington Place, and how they played a part in the origin story of forensic linguistics.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

AIFL were delighted to welcome Kate Summerscale, bestselling author and historian, to talk about her book The Peep Show: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place @drniccimacleod.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fascinating and excellent paper!

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

A really great paper and the first to offer a systematic deconstruction of LIWC, detailing why it fails to stand up to linguistic scrutiny. A definite must read!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't yet read the paper, but from my own knowledge and research on LIWC, it is a definite 'no'. For a start, the attribution of psychological state to individual words ignores context. #ForensicLinguistics #CorpusLinguistics

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#forensiclinguistics [typo in the initial tag!]

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The paper we have all been waiting for and missing greatly whenever the issue of “why NOT liwc” needed to be backed up by linguistic references!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

This is huge

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