An Introduction to Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics

provides an exceptional resource for the fields of forensic phonetics and linguistics, featuring how these closely relevant disciplines work together to guide legal explorations and deliver justice.Emphasizing students and professionals, it includes important topics, including speaker and author profiling, meaning analysis, audio authentication, and forensic transcription.With a thorough and comprehensive focus on authentic implementation, the book bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and actual applications, exercises, and authentic tools, making it useful for students and professionals who are seeking to comprehend how essential language and speech analysis can be conducted in forensic settings.The book is structured with 13 loosely connected chapters, emphasizing essential dimensions in terms of forensic phonetics and linguistics.It starts with an introduction to fundamental knowledge about the fields, providing a basis for the in-depth investigation that follows.The book's first theme is forensic phonetics, covering speech analysis, speaker profiling, speaker comparison, earwitness evidence, and audio improvement and authentication.Subsequently, it discusses forensic linguistics, investigating language analysis in asylum procedures, linguistic meaning, and language use in the judicial system.The book finally delves into authorship analysis, covering authorship profiling and comparative analysis, and ends with the importance of speech and language experts as witnesses in legal contexts.Each chapter integrates foundational perspectives to authentic implementation, advocated by case studies, exercises, and extra materials to improve learning experiences.Chapter 1 discusses the fields of forensic phonetics and linguistics, contextualizing the fundamental knowledge for the investigation of speech