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Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner. Co-host Writing Wrongs podcast www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social www.aston.ac.uk/aifl Personal: timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/

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Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes Series 2 - Episode 5 Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes * Warning: Today’s episode contains descriptions of religious extremism, radicalization and plots of violence or terrorism. *   Joined by Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen, hosts Nicci and Tim discuss a counterterrorism investigation from Denmark. In this case, linguistic analysis proved vital in unraveling implied meanings in text messages between a young man of Kurdish background, suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS, and another man, suspected of trying to recruit him.   Through an analysis of 192 written chat messages from March 2015 between the two individuals, Tanya shares how themes of money, battle and war, and urgency in planning played a role in advancing a Danish police investigation. Listen to discover more.   For a list of our sources and more information about this case, please visit https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs   Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk (mailto:writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk)  and we may answer it during an upcoming episode!   Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: https://medium.com/@AIFLblog   If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free sources: • https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ • https://www.helpguide.org/find-help   Production Team: Angela Walker, Jordan Robertson, Neus Alberich Buera Sound: Angela Walker Visual design: George Grant Additional Voices: Mark Round, Peter Kiddle With our thanks to Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen   Resources Professor Tim Grant’s home page: Tim Grant - Aston Research Explorer (https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-grant)   Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page: Nicci MacLeod - Aston Research Explorer (https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/nicci-macleod) Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen’s home page: Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen - Research Profile (https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/tanya-karoli-christensen)

This month, Dr Tanya Karoli Christensen joins hosts Dr @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social to unpack a Danish investigation involving 192 chat messages exchanged between two men in 2015.

🔗 tinyurl.com/3cehcmtk

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#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #extremismstudies

05.12.2025 12:22 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Pleased to know you’re going to use it with students.

As well as the two Bentley episodes there’s two on Timothy Evans (S1 Ep1&2) which are in some ways linked.

07.11.2025 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language”

In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant

05.11.2025 15:38 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Derek Bentley: Death by Ambiguity In this first episode of a two-part case, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Professor Tim Grant discuss Derek Bentley’s story and the miscarriages of justice that occurred when he was found guilty of murder and re...

Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discuss Derek Bentley's story: 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dere...

07.11.2025 10:51 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language.” In this ep. of the We Society Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help lead to justice. podfollow.com/the-we-socie...

05.11.2025 11:30 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law.

https://cup.org/48Ah0ac

#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky

21.10.2025 15:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🎥Check out this video introduction to the new #CambridgeElement

"Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption" by Matteo Fuoli, Adam Nix, Alicia Wickert, & Annina Van Riper, part of the Elements in Forensic Linguistics

🔗 https://cup.org/3VXRofO

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

11.10.2025 19:14 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Image of Forensic Linguistics Elements series

Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law.

https://cup.org/48Ah0ac

#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky

21.10.2025 15:51 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The Derek Bentley Case 👇

In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.

12.09.2025 08:38 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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If you can't wait until then, listen - or re-listen - to the the first two episodes of Season 1 about conviction of Timothy Evans executed in 1950.

⁉️ Bonus quiz - Spot the surprising crossover character who has a significant bit part in both stories. ⁉️

#podcast
#truecrime
#forensiclinguistics

04.09.2025 07:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writing Wrongs

➡️ Season 1 available right now on all podcast channels or from www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

➡️ Season 2 available from Friday 5th September with the Bentley double-bill and thereafter on the first Friday of each month
#podcast
#truecrime
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#academicsky

04.09.2025 07:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🎧 Season 2 Episode 2: 🎙️ Derek Bentley - Let him say it 🎙️ (with Professor Malcolm Coulthard) 🎧

At the 1998 appeal the linguistic analysis of Prof Malcolm Coulthard showed that Bentley's statement to the police, had in fact been written by the police.

#podcast
#truecrime
#linguistics

04.09.2025 07:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨Out tomorrow🚨
🎧 Season 2 Episode 1: 🎙️ Derek Bentley - Death by Ambiguity 🎙️ 🎧

At the original trial ❗not one, but two ❗ important linguistic ambiguities enabled the prosectors to convict and execute him.

#podcast
#truecrime
#academic
#impact

04.09.2025 07:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🚨 Season 2 of our podcast Writing Wrongs starts tomorrow! 🚨

❗ Not one, but two episodes ❗
Find out all about the infamous Derek Bentley case - executed in 1953 for his participation in the murder of a police officer, and acquitted forty-five years later in 1998.

#podcast
#truecrime
#lingsky

04.09.2025 07:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Applied Corpus Linguistics | Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Language plays a key role in online offending and adversarial interpersonal behaviours. Corpus linguistics is a distinctive and valuable part of the researcher and practitioner toolkit for better unde...

Check out the full special issue! We're in excellent company @mathewgillings.bsky.social @katebarber.bsky.social @danaroemling.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

02.09.2025 09:26 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Linguistics and Language Podcasts Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Here’s a comprehensive list with descriptions! I’ve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know! Linguistics...

I'm doing my annual update to my list of linguistics and language podcasts:
www.superlinguo.com/post/1584480...

If you listen to anything that's not already on the list, please let me know about it! (I wait until something has 5 episode before adding it to the list)

25.08.2025 22:29 👍 33 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 2
Writing Wrongs

Are you aware of Writing Wrongs - our forensic linguistics true crime podcast.

Season 1 - available now

Season 2 - from 5th Sept then 1st Friday of each month

From www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs or any podcast platform

02.09.2025 10:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poster for Season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast Illustrating the eight episodes
- The Evans Statement  - a case for forensic linguistics
- Interview with author Kate Summerscale about her book the Peepshow
- Imposters tending to the wild
- Foreyguistics Lingeyguistics: Cracking the Killers Code
- Romance Fraud: the Linguistics Crime Scene
- The disputed confessions of Darnell Rusan
- They said: She Said - the Ayia Napa Rape Case
- Questions and Answers

Poster for Season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast Illustrating the eight episodes - The Evans Statement - a case for forensic linguistics - Interview with author Kate Summerscale about her book the Peepshow - Imposters tending to the wild - Foreyguistics Lingeyguistics: Cracking the Killers Code - Romance Fraud: the Linguistics Crime Scene - The disputed confessions of Darnell Rusan - They said: She Said - the Ayia Napa Rape Case - Questions and Answers

If you are a teacher please do advertise it to your students.

As well as being of interest to students of English or Languages, it will interest psychology or sociology A level groups.
here's the Season One poster- For bigger files to print for a classroom wall, write to writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk

29.08.2025 10:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster advertising Writing Wrongs Live show.  4pm-6pm  22nd October, Steelhouse Lane Lockup, Birmingham.  
Free tickets via www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

Poster advertising Writing Wrongs Live show. 4pm-6pm 22nd October, Steelhouse Lane Lockup, Birmingham. Free tickets via www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

It will be suitable for a general adult audience interested in forensic linguistics and true crime and also for schools audience groups (GCSE / A levels). The podcast it self contains more adult themes (but nothing that they won't have watched on Netflix) but the live event won't be explicit.

29.08.2025 10:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Season 2 of Writing Wrongs starts next Friday with a double-bill 🤫🤐

But I can tell you that Episode 4 is going to involve a live recording as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - and that you can come along!

#podcast
#truecrime
#lingsky #langsky
#academicsky
#forensiclinguistics

29.08.2025 10:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Bosworth field memorial to Richard III

Bosworth field memorial to Richard III

Bosworth Field memorial to Richard III

Bosworth Field memorial to Richard III

22nd August - so we walked up to the memorial at the top of Bosworth Field.

Of course about 30 years after it was built the archaeologist showed they’d put it in the wrong place - he died in the swamp at the bottom of the hill, like Shakespeare said.

And then got buried in the Leicester car park

22.08.2025 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It has been so much fun contributing to this podcast

Can't wait for the release of Season 2 to start ... first Friday of each month ... so that's September 5th for Season 2!

#truecrime
#podcast
#forensiclinguistics
#appliedlinguistics
#linguistics
#academicsky
#langsky #lingsky
#TeamAston

22.08.2025 11:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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That was season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast! Dr Nicci MacLeod and Tim Grant have taken a case-by-case look at the field of forensic linguistics in action throughout 8 episodes 👇

22.08.2025 10:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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🔎 Decoding slang meaning and forensic linguistics 🔎

@timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss how important slang is in forensic linguistics casework in the Season One Series finale of Writing Wrongs.

You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform

11.08.2025 10:52 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Writing Wrongs

If you are more broadly interested in forensic linguistics and the kind of evidence we give, we have a podcast (doesn’t everyone!) It’s called “Writing Wrongs” and you can find it on all podcast platforms or at www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

08.08.2025 07:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A phrasal verb is a multi word verb where the individual words can me unrelated to the overall meaning.

The standard English examples I came up with in court were “to take after your father” or “look after your mother” - meanings of “take” “look” and “after” don’t relate to the phrasal meanings.

08.08.2025 07:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t talk about the case until after verdict and sentencing but I was giving evidence about slang.

There were a set of messages between a group in Urban British English and I was providing standard English meaning to the court. One slang item was a phrasal verb.

08.08.2025 07:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That was fun, I was just able to explain how a phrasal verb works under cross examination in a criminal trial.

Everyday a teaching day

#forensiclinguistics

07.08.2025 15:04 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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‼️Out now‼️
🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️our Season One Series finale:
🎧 ❗ Listen Now❗🎧
⁉️ The Questions and Answers Episode⁉️

You can listen on any podcast platform or direct from 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs for the full answer to this question and more..

❓ Do forensic linguists get cases involving slang❓

01.08.2025 07:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Colleague @drniccimacleod.bsky.social co-host, forensic linguist, Ghostbuster!

🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️podcast series final tomorrow!

Catchup on the whole series today on every podcast platform or at 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

#academicsky
#langsky
#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#truecrime
#podcast

31.07.2025 07:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0