In the first of this year’s two-part Ian Gordon Fellow Public Lecture series, Professor Natalie Schilling explains how linguists help solve crimes and assist courts in reaching valid verdicts. Drawing from her own experiences as a linguistic investigator, Dr Schilling will explain different types of forensic linguistic analysis—author and speaker profiling, authorship attribution, and voice identification, among others—and give you the chance to analyse some language evidence yourself.
Professor Schilling is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and Forensic Linguistics at Georgetown University in the United States. She specialises in the study of language variation and change, including regional, ethnic, and gender-based language varieties.
Professor Schilling has given more than 100 presentations at international academic conferences and forensic linguistics training workshops on the scientific analysis of language evidence; and she has spoken to groups ranging from the FBI, to those incarcerated in maximum-security prisons.
Ian Gordon Fellow Public Lecture 2019
When: 6–7 pm, Tuesday 9 April
Where: Lecture Theatre KKLT301, Level 3, Kirk Building, Kelburn Campus
To register to attend this free lecture, email lals@vuw.ac.nz with ‘Ian Gordon Fellow’ in the subject line by Friday 5 April.