Research talks at CFL

If you would like to attend any of the talks, please contact us.

: : 12 May 2010
Caroline Tagg, University of Birmingham
'"I've just cooked a rather nice salmon a la you" ... extending our understanding of creativity in text messaging'
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: : 5 May 2010
Ron Butters, Duke University, President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
'"I am a needy petite woman": Judging the Real Age of Participants in IM Sex Talk Enticement Conversations'

: : 28 April 2010
Daniel Greenberg, Office of Parliamentary Counsel
'The Illusion of Plain English in Legal Contexts'
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: : 22 April 2009
Peter Patrick, University of Essex
'Language testing of asylum applicants'

: : 18 March 2009
Luna Filipovic, University of Cambridge
'Lost or added in translation: Witness interviews in English and Spanish'
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: : 4 March 2009
Gea de Jong, University of Cambridge and Forensic Research Associates
'Language change and speaker identification'
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: : 10 December 2008
Gavin Oxburgh, University of Teesside
'Police Interviewing of Suspected Child Sex Offenders: What Factors Influence the Obtaining of Investigation-relevant Information?'
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: : 26 November 2008
Samuel Tomblin, Lancaster University
'By Your Words Shall Ye Be Judged: Lay judgements of authorship'
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: : 25 June 2008
Georgina Heydon, Monash University, Australia
'The risk to testimonial integrity of moral judgements in police interviews'
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: : 21 May 2008
Jessica Woodhams, University of Gloucestershire, with Tim Grant, Aston University
'Rape as communicative interaction - an application of investigative linguistics'
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: : 14 May 2008
Larry Solan, Brooklyn Law School, USA
'False Consensus Bias in Contract Interpretation'
Talk organised under Aston University's Distinguished Visitor Scheme
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: : 13 May 2008
Malcolm Coulthard, Aston University
Inaugural Lecture: 'The Linguist as Detective and Expert Witness'
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: : 7 May 2008
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
'Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual'
Talk organised under Aston University's Distinguished Visitor Scheme
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: : 31 October 2007
Alison Johnson, Leeds University
'Small is beautiful. Researching small corpora in forensic (con)texts: some lessons from recent research'
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