Day : Thursday
Topic : Computational Stylistics and Forensic Linguistics
Last
April 11th, we learnt about Computational Stylistics and forensic
Linguistics in class. Computational Stylistics is the study of stylistics
characteristics of texts, authors and genres using the computer. This study is
quite interesting as we can look further at the style of a particular work such
as literary field, social sciences nor humanities.
The scope of computational
stylistics vary as they look into common words, rare words, writing style
attitude and tone of authors and the unique characteristics of an author’s
writing. For instance, Slyvia Plath; her
depressing and dark poems can be a production of her family background where
she is not close with her father and the fact that she commits suicide also can
be seen in her poems. However, there are risks as the authors may change their
style over time and the possibility of two authors writing alike.
Forensic linguistics on the other
hand is a linguistics field that closely related to law. Forensic linguists
work under forensic and legal firms where their job is to understand the
language of the written law, understand language use in forensic and legal
processes and the condition of linguistics evidences. There are quite a number
of corpuses in forensic linguistics such as ransom notes, anonymous letters,
threatening letters, plagiarism, suicide notes, examination fraud, missing
person and others. We just knew the fact that plagiarism and examination fraud
are considered as a criminal!
TQ^^
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