Description
Research from the field of psychology has shown that there are significant differences between the language of a truth teller and that of a liar, and investigating these differences in more detail may point towards so-called ‘cues to deception’. In this talk, I will offer an overview of past, present, and potential future work within the field of deception detection, spanning both forensic psychology and linguistics alike. I will first discuss earlier works, which have mainly consisted of hand-coding interview transcripts, before moving on to later studies which have tended to utilise LIWC (Pennebaker et al., 2001) as a form of computer assistance.However, whilst LIWC was introduced to deception detection research with the hope of standardising analyses and reducing researcher subjectivity/bias, it has produced its own unique set of problems. The tool decontextualizes language by stripping away its grammatical coherence, and uses taggers which rely on simple dictionary-based algorithms (Lorenzo-Dus and Kinzel, 2019; Gillings, 2021). The present talk will therefore focus on how current practice could be refined from a forensic linguistics perspective, in particular by applying a corpus linguistic methodology, to explore language use in context - both quantitatively and qualitatively. To do this, I will draw upon case studies from my own and others’ work, and offer some thoughts on how the field may move forward through collaboration, rather than opposition.
| Period | 5 Nov 2022 |
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| Event title | 3rd Indonesian Community for Forensic Linguistics Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 3 |
| Location | Bandar Lampung, IndonesiaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |