Forensic Stylistics

·Forensic Stylistic is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, and judicial procedure.

· Stylistics is generally to evaluate either the aesthetic quality of the language used in speech or writing. · Whereas style is a reflection of group or individual variation in a written language.

· Identifying the different variations in the linguistic writing helps in the identification of the original author of the questioned writing sample.

 ·The two different approaches to Forensic Stylistics are:  Qualitative Approach and  Quantitative Approach

·The methodology for identification of the actual writer includes : Getting organized, Stating the problem , Procedural steps , Specifying descriptive results., Specifying quantitative results, Specifying exclusion conclusion, Specifying identification conclusion , Precedent cases and  Writing a report

·Specifying the style markers and their identification is a very important step in identifying the author of the writing.

·Forensic Stylistics can help in voice identification, Analysis of discourse in legal settings, Authorship identification and so on.

·Let us learn about all this in the given video lecture.