Forensic Linguistics

The 6th FLsc will be an in-person event located at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most densely populated state, and home to historic buildings, a rich city culture, and one of Europe’s biggest Japan towns.

As in previous years, we invite students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students, postdocs and more senior researchers from Linguistics (and its sub-disciplines), Phonetics and Phonology, Law/Legal Studies, and related fields to apply for this international interdisciplinary program. All sessions will be conducted in English.

The FLsc is taught by Dr Isabel Picornell and Dr Krzysztof Kredens and will take place on 3 – 6 September 2024. For the first time, the FLsc will span four instead of three days, as we want to give participants the chance to practice what they have learnt in more detail. This year’s programme will most probably focus on:

• Disputed meanings (indeterminacy in language; threats, malicious communications and defamation)
• Authorship analysis (profiling; theoretical foundations; casework examples and methods; faked contexts; native language identification; suicide notes)
• Guided case study (analysis and presentation of findings)

Course leader

The FLsc is taught by Dr Isabel Picornell and Dr Krzysztof Kredens, and organised by Dr Dominic Schmitz (HHU Düsseldorf) and Janina Esser (div-ling e.V.).

Target group

Students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students, postdocs and more senior researchers from Linguistics (and its sub-disciplines), Phonetics and Phonology, Law/Legal Studies, and related fields.