Petyko, Marton, Busso, Lucia, Grant, Tim and Atkins, Sarah (2022). The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD). Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 9 (1), pp. 9-24.
Abstract
The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) is a permanent, controlled access online repository for forensic linguistic data. We broadly understand forensic linguistics as any academic research with a potential to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language. FoLD thus comprises a wide range of datasets with relevance to forensic linguistics and language and law, including commercial extortion letters, investigative interviews in police and other contexts, legal documents, forum posts from far-right online groups, and comment threads from political blogs. This paper outlines how FoLD works and its potential impact on the general discipline of forensic linguistics.
| Publication DOI: | 0.21747/21833745/lanlaw/9_1a1 |
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| Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > English Languages and Applied Linguistics ?? 53981500Jl ?? College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Health and Society Aston University (General) |
| Additional Information: | Copyright (c) 2022 Marton Petyko, et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/]. Note 1: The FoLD online interface and server is managed by Aston University’s student-led software enterprise Beautiful Canoe (https://beautifulcanoe.com/). Note 2: The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL) was founded in 2019. It is a substantial expansion of the former Aston Centre for Forensic Linguistics that was founded in 2008. This expansion was funded via a £6M investment including a £5.4M award from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England(E3) fund. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Databank,Repository,Resource,Data sharing,Data access |
| Publication ISSN: | 2183-3745 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2025 07:16 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2022 10:11 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
| Published Date: | 2022-11-23 |
| Published Online Date: | 2022-11-22 |
| Accepted Date: | 2022-04-03 |
| Authors: |
Petyko, Marton
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0000-0002-1897-9435)
Busso, Lucia (
0000-0002-5665-771X)
Grant, Tim (
0000-0002-5155-8413)
Atkins, Sarah (
0000-0003-3481-5681)
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