Authorship · Stylometry · Linguistic EvidenceFile Z-03 · Saturday, July 11, 2026
FLING/ˈflɪŋ/n.
Forensic Linguistics
The language is the evidence.

This recorded webinar, presented by Rob Leonard of Hofstra University, outlines the role of a forensic linguistic expert and describes how graduate students can engage in internships on active cases, including threat‑letter analysis and civil litigation (Hofstra University, Working as a Forensic Linguistic Expert and Opportunities for Students). The talk highlights the program’s faculty expertise in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and big‑data approaches, linking these methods to authorship attribution, stylometric profiling, and authenticity/hoax assessment of questioned

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