[Corpora-List] Corpus of threats?

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi Tyler

There is a Forensic Linguistics centre at Aston University:

http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/



They may be able to help you...

best wishes

Ramesh

Visiting Academic Fellow

Aston University

http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff-directory/krishnamurthyr/





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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:12:49 -0400
From: Angus Grieve-Smith <grvsmth at panix.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Corpus of threats?
To: corpora at uib.no

On 11/1/2012 12:59 PM, Tyler Schnoebelen wrote:
>
> I was looking over the records of searches that led to my corpus blog
> (http://corplinguistics.wordpress.com) and came across:
>
> "death threat corpus linguistics"
>
> 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?
>
> Vaguely law/criminal-related corpora suggestions are also welcomed. As
> would "flame war" corpora.
>
>

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.

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:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002762.html

--
-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
grvsmth at panix.com



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