🧵 4/4
This is such an interesting overview of forensic linguistics & a great reminder that language can become evidence in ways we might not always expect.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 4/4
This is such an interesting overview of forensic linguistics & a great reminder that language can become evidence in ways we might not always expect.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 3/4
The piece also highlights why forensic linguistics matters increasingly in the age of AI: understanding how offenders communicate, build trust & share knowledge can support new approaches to investigation, disruption & safeguarding.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 2/4
In some cases, seemingly ordinary features such as greetings, phrasing or lexical choices have contributed to major investigations & convictions.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 1/4
It also explores work on dark web criminal communities, showing how language can reveal identity, group norms, rapport-building & the ways people establish trust within harmful online spaces.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.socialThis article from Dr Emily Chiang explores forensic linguistics, moving from cases where linguistic habits helped identify anonymous offenders to the wider role forensic linguists can play in authorship analysis & access to justice.
🧵👇
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵4/4
Understanding how deceptive identities & relationships are constructed over time could help us move beyond lists of obvious warning signs towards recognising the communicative processes through which online manipulation actually works.
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 3/4
What particularly strikes me is the importance of examining manipulation as an interaction: trust, intimacy & credibility are not simply established once, but continually negotiated through language.
#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #languageandlaw #romancescams
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social🧵 1/4
Scammers may build attractive identities, establish intimacy & trust, manufacture crises & gradually introduce financial requests, adapting their communication according to how the other person responds.
#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #languageandlaw #romancescams
@perkinskeighley.bsky.socialThis fascinating research from Fangzhou Wang, Ph.D. examines romance scams as carefully constructed processes of social engineering and deceptive communication.
🧵👇
#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #languageandlaw #romancescams