Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies)

Information regarding the next edition of the programme will be updated shortly.

The Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies), together with the Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Language and Law), makes up the Master in Forensic Linguistics.

Students studying for a diploma in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies) will learn how to:

• Manage information, documentation and knowledge in multilingual environments
• Compile, label and encode multilingual resources
• Process natural language
• Generate IT tools for general and multimedia applications
• Apply statistical and multivariate analysis to natural language
• Generate and apply speech technology to identify speakers and establish linguistic profiles, in addition to generating automatic systems for determining and attributing authorship and detecting plagiarism

This specific training programme in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies) takes advantage of contexts that call for experts who work in the interface between applied linguistics, law and new technologies:

• Geographical context (bilingual [Catalan, Spanish] and multilingual [the Government of Catalonia's language planning policy on the command of a third language; European Union's policy on language planning] reality)
• Social context (business, legal field, public health, social well-being, teaching)
• Professional context (certain professional fields: translators, communicators, linguistic mediators, technical and linguistic consultants)

The main fields of activity of these experts in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies) are:

• In judicial organisations and institutions and in companies:

a) developing speaker identification systems (speech technology)

b) determining and attributing authorship of a text, letter or anonymous notes, in a trial

c) determining the existence of plagiarism

• In healthcare institutions:

a) developing tools for people with language pathologies and specific communication needs (speech technology)

b) developing tools that enable experts to act in forensic medicine and psychiatry

Information regarding the next edition of the programme will be updated shortly.

This postgraduate programme is structured into three postgraduate courses that represent the three most relevant areas in Judicial Linguistic Technical Studies: Forensic Phonetics, Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Attribution. They may be studied independently. Passing the three courses enables the student to gain a Postgraduate Diploma in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies).

In turn, the Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Legal and Judicial Language), together with the Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies) (DLIFP), make up the Master in Forensic Linguistics (MLINF).

Classroom-based

This Master is aimed at graduates of Linguistics, Translation, Philology and other fields such as Law, Journalism and Psychology who wish to specialise in applied forensic linguistics and study the interface between language and law.