29.3297, Books: More Wordcrime: Olsson

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Subject: 29.3297, Books: More Wordcrime: Olsson

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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:13:33
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: More Wordcrime: Olsson

 


Title: More Wordcrime 
Subtitle: Solving Crime With Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/more-wordcrime-9781350029644/ 


Author: John Olsson

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350029651 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 10.78 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350029668 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 10.78 Comment: ePDF
Paperback: ISBN:  9781350029644 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 9.99


Abstract:

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr.
John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic
linguists specialising in authorship.

Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes
gone bad to allegations of university plagiarism, Olsson turns the same tools
to the task – the power, depth and precision of forensic linguistics.
Grammatical curiosities, lexical quirks, typographic stylings and patterns of
use can all give away even the most hard-bitten and careful of criminals. And
Olsson doesn't stop there. From the giveaway compound nouns of heavy-handed
police statements to the startling similarities displayed in what should be
individual office accounts, officials in high places are given a run for their
money too. Wordcrime is easy to commit – and hard to escape. "More Wordcrime"
features a series of gripping cases involving murder, sexual assault, hate
mail, suspicious death and criminal damage. In approachable and clear prose,
Dr Olsson details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat criminals, and
how even those in power can be held to account.

This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern,
cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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