This recorded lecture recounts a forensic‑linguistics consultation in which the speaker was asked to evaluate whether threatening phrases such as “I’m gonna kick your ass, I’m gonna pop you one” are characteristic of American English rather than British English, thereby influencing the credibility of a defendant’s alleged utterances. The discussion outlines possible methodological approaches—including corpus‑based frequency analysis and dictionary verification—to assess dialectal usage, and reflects
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