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Practitioners of forensic
linguistics or 'language and the law' apply tools of linguistics,
including discourse analysis, to natural language data, written,
spoken, and sometimes signed. We work systematically with
monologic and dialogic documents, conversations, and legal processes to
provide expert advice, testimony, and evidence. Our scope of
practice may include voice and author identification, various kinds of
discourse analysis, language origin and language proficiency analysis,
various kinds of veracity analysis, and contextualization using
sociocultural expertise. Trained in Roger Shuy's last Georgetown
University class, I accept inquiries from parties interested in the
services of a linguistic consultant or linguistic expert witness.
My experience with actions and cases includes:
| Client |
Action |
Outcome |
| Private (Immigration) |
Appeal of CIS's incorrect calculation of aging out |
Decided in favor of client |
| Private (Compensation) |
Small claim against private university |
Settled in favor of client |
| Washington College of Law Students (Immigration) |
Appeal of South Asian's US asylum case |
Decided in favor of client |
| Roger W. Shuy, Inc. (Labor) |
Database search on language use and stress |
Delivered per agreement |
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