This recorded episode of “Corpus Cast” (Aston Originals) presents a conversation with Professor Tim Grant and Dr Lucia Busso on the application of corpus linguistics to forensic linguistics, emphasizing its use in authorship attribution, the analysis of abusive letters, and the examination of language in news media. The discussion highlights how large‑scale linguistic pattern analysis informs forensic investigations, including online communication, police interviews, and sexual‑assault cases.
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods · the letters