Forensic Linguistics-Statement Analysis

摘要

Interviewing suspects, victims and witnesses is part of street police work and detective work alike. Statements can back up information you already know or can provide you with new insight or a new perspective. However, there is another way you can use state- ments and that is to delve even deeper into a situation to find the truth. You should never take a state- ment as fact or at face value. More often than not, there is more that you can uncover. It has been said that forensic lin- guistics was used in the ancient era of Greek play writing to determine whether someone ripped someone off of their play or not. It was not until the late 1960s that the practice of forensic linguistics was accepted. A linguistics professor by the name of Jan Svartik first mentioned it. From there it expanded until it not only increased in popularity in the literary world but also the investigative one. Statements help law enforcement piece together what may have hap- pened in a situation. There are ele- ments of statements that can be looked into further as mentioned before; no statement should ever be taken at face value. There are a few key factors to keep in mind when you review someone's statement.