Open lecture on forensic linguistics

You are invited to attend a talk by the forensic linguist and consultant Dr. Isabel Picornell (QED Forensics):

"Identifying Deception in Forensic Contexts: from witness statements to financial fraud"

Dr. Picornell is an experienced practitioner of forensic linguistics and director of the consulting company QED Forensics https://www.qedforensics.com/.

She is also President of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) and a certified fraud examiner with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Dr. Picornell specializes in the cases involving deception detection. 

Abstract

To date, no single cue or set of cues have been identified that are characteristic of verbal deception across contexts and media. What research increasingly reveals is that deception is not a separate communication construct to normal truth telling, nor is it emotion-linked. Instead, the “linguistic cues” we find are conditional on the information strategy that the deceiver choses to use. This presentation will begin with brief look at the evolution and social history of deception cues to establish why we think of deception cues in the way that we do, and then move into exploring linguist strategies associated with texts normally found in forensic contexts – witness statements and falsified emails relating to financial fraud.