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

Olsson (n.d.) introduces fundamental forensic‑linguistic concepts, focusing on the definition and construction of corpora and their application to real‑world texts such as police statements. The video illustrates how a specialized corpus of officer reports can reveal recurring, idiosyncratic phrasing and spelling errors that signal textual borrowing, thereby supporting authorship attribution and questioned‑document analysis.

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