FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: HISTORY, MAIN TASKS AND PROSPECTS

Forensic Linguistics and Forensic Phonetics: An Introduction

Communication is the essence of human civilization. Life would not have been possible without this cognitive faculty. However, with evolution in civilization instances of criminal activities are also on the increase. This paper introduces one such scientific discipline which has the potential to provide an authentic framework for such identifications. It is called Forensic Linguistics. Each ind...

Future Prospects for Computational Linguistics

For over two decades, researchers in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics have sought to discover principles that would allow computer systems to process natural languages such as English. This work has been pursued both to further the scientific goals of providing a framework for a computational theory of natural-language communication and to further the engineering goals of c...

The History of Linguistics

4. The History of Linguistics

Many “histories” of linguistics have been written over the last two hundred years, and since the 1970s linguistic historiography has become a specialized subfield, with conferences, professional organizations, and journals of its own. Works on the history of linguistics often had such goals as defending a particular school of thought, promoting nationalism in various countries, or focussing on ...

Forensic psychiatry in Africa: prospects and challenges.