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This document provides an overview of forensic linguistics. It defines forensic linguistics as applying linguistic knowledge and methods to legal contexts. Some key applications are voice identification, author identification, discourse analysis, and dialectology. The history of forensic linguistics began in the 1960s with the field gaining more attention from various disciplines in the 1980s. Different types of forensic texts that can be analyzed include emergency calls, ransom demands, suicide letters, de

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Mohammad Yousaf Yaqoob

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