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Psychological and Linguistic Portrait of Criminals. Introduction to Discussion
Psychological and Linguistic Portrait of Criminals. Introduction to Discussion

Author(s): Jadwiga Stawnicka, Iwona Klonowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Published by: Fundacja Pedagogium
Keywords: psychology; forensic linguistics; criminal; idiolect; emotions

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns one aspect of forensic linguistics, which concerns determination by the challenged statements. This is done in collaboration with linguist – creating a profile linguistic songwriter – and a psychologist – that creates a psychological profile. The cooperation of specialists can be used at the level of assessment, which is used for the purposes of investigation and legal proceedings. Expertise in the field of forensic linguistics (forensic linguistics, German. Forensische Linguistik) include setting by/performance of speech based on the content of spoken or written (eg. The farewell letters, threatening letters, ransom demands); the possibility of setting texts by anonymous on the Internet, to determine the characteristics of linguistic stalkers and cyberstalkerów that can identify the sender of the message sender identification of the origin country, constructing linguistic profile anonymous author, the linguistic profile of the author of the well-known text. It should be added that the analysis of the content in content-language document contains emotional component, which is related to our knowledge about the determinants of language to express emotions, both negative and positive. An important element of the text is a matter of psychological portrait of the sender (author and / or performer) of the text based on the identified linguistic features.

  • Issue Year: 12/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-40
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English