One judge remarked to a phonetician: “A linguist…is someone who speaks a lot of languages, so what exactly are you doing here?” (Storey White 1997: 281).
In another case a linguist was told by the judge that ‘Surely there are only two kinds of English — correct English and incorrect English?’
Forensic linguistics is applied in these different areas:
• Law language
• Judicial procedure language
• Linguistic evidence in judicial procedure: