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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/1/2012 12:59 PM, Tyler
Schnoebelen wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was looking over the records of searches
that led to my corpus blog (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://corplinguistics.wordpress.com">http://corplinguistics.wordpress.com</a>)
and came across:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“death threat corpus linguistics”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This actually is a pretty interesting idea
for a corpus. Does anyone know about such a corpus or
something similar that would help researchers investigate the
language of threatening/intimidation? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vaguely law/criminal-related corpora
suggestions are also welcomed. As would “flame war” corpora. <o:p></o:p></p>
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There's a whole field of "forensic linguistics" that deals with
language, criminal justice and dispute resolution. They do use
corpora, although they may not use methods as sophisticated as the
ones we use. Anything they find has to hold up in a court of law,
or else force a settlement or plea bargain.<br>
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This past spring at the International Linguistic Association in
New York, we had a lecture by James Fitzgerald, a former FBI agent
who used corpus methods to help catch the Unabomber. This Language
Log post talks about some of his work:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002762.html">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002762.html</a><br>
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a>
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