items. It is common for forensic linguistics to refer only to written text, whereas anything involving samples of speech is known as forensic speech science.

There are principally three areas of application for linguists working on written texts in forensic contexts:
* understanding language of the written law,
* understanding language use in forensic and judicial processes, and
* the provision of linguistic evidence.

Forensic speech science also has many different

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