This is a research colloquium for MA students who are currently preparing or working on their final theses in the fields of Anthropological Linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, (Applied) English Linguistics and/or World Englishes.

Forensic Linguistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics that involves the examination of spoken or written language evidence to aid in the resolution of legal disputes, criminal cases, and investigations. During this seminar, we will look at specimen of threatening communication from different historical and contemporary varieties of English, and we will focus on the question of how meaning and implied meaning are construed, how the effect of threatening is achieved and what kind of evidence may assist in the identification of suspects.