Authorship · Stylometry · Linguistic EvidenceFile Z-03 · Thursday, July 9, 2026
FLING/ˈflɪŋ/n.
Forensic Linguistics
The language is the evidence.

The working vocabulary of forensic linguistics, defined and cited. Each definition is drawn from a named book in the examined corpus, not from memory.

  • Idiolect — from An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence (Coulthard, Johnson & Wright, 2nd ed.)
  • Stylometry — from The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (Coulthard, May & Sousa-Silva, eds., 2nd ed.)
  • Authorship attribution — from Forensic Linguistics (Olsson & Luchjenbroers, 3rd ed.)
  • Authorship profiling — from Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework (Picornell, Perkins & Coulthard, eds.)
  • Questioned documents — from Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework (Picornell, Perkins & Coulthard, eds.)
  • The base-rate problem — from An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence (Coulthard, Johnson & Wright, 2nd ed.)
  • Likelihood ratios — from The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (Coulthard, May & Sousa-Silva, eds., 2nd ed.)
  • Forensic phonetics — from Forensic Linguistics (Olsson & Luchjenbroers, 3rd ed.)
  • Forensic stylistics — from An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence (Coulthard, Johnson & Wright, 2nd ed.)