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https://doi.org/10.26170/1999-2629_2021_01_15
Copy DOIJournal: Политическая лингвистика | Publication Date: Jan 1, 2021 |
The article provides an overview of the reports of the 1st Roundtable on Practices and Standards in Forensic Authorship. The roundtable was held by the International Association of Forensic Linguistics and the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester on May 15, 2019. The review presents a co-authored report by Krzysztof Kredens from the University of Aston and Piotr Rezik “Large-scale author classification — looking into the black box”, Jack Grieve, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham “Register variation and authorship analysis” and the report by Jack Grieve, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, “Register variation and authorship analysis”. Each report is supplemented with questions to the speaker and their answers to them. The first report looks at the issue of authorship identification on the material of short messages from popular Internet forums («Musmnet» is one of them). Data processing involves the k-nearest neighbors algorithm and uses the following style markers: n-grams, POSlemmas with neutralized polysemanticity, collocations demonstrating typical lexical realizations of syntactic constructions (phrasal verbs, direct objects and subjects expressed by pronouns). In case there are no universally accepted markers, it is necessary each time to find optimal parameters and treat each case as unique. In his report on stylometry, Jack Grieve argues that the functional theory of language variation is more suitable as a foundation for it than sociolinguistics: language varies in different contexts because some linguistic forms suit these contexts better than others. To demonstrate the advantages of the functional approach, a stylometric analysis of the articles of two political columnists of “The Telegraph” is performed. The style of analytical columns of these authors differs depending on the communication strategy: the style of one author is more narrative, and that of the other is more analytical. The reporter concludes that the functional theory of authorship identification studies can become more reliable than the sociolinguistic theory of individual style and can be considered a foundation of forensic linguistics on the whole.
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