Analyzing the Current Status of the Forensic Linguistics and Its Development Strategies in Cyber Linguistics

Subject Areas : Legal Studies of Cyberspace

Soheila Asgari ¹ , Faezeh Farazandehpour ² , Jamshid Gholamloo ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان شناسی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران.
2 - Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
3 - استادیار دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه تهران.

Received: 2023-05-31 Accepted : 2023-08-27 Published : 2023-10-29

Keywords: criminology, Applied Linguistics, Governance, Forensic Linguistics, Cyber Linguistics,

Abstract :

Forensic linguistics is defined as the study and analysis of language in the legal field, which is introduced as a relatively new field compared to syntax, phonetics, semantics, phonology and other branches of linguistics. This branch is the link between linguistics and law, which is also related to fields such as semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and vocabulary. In this branch, linguistic knowledge, analysis and methodology are also applied in legal and criminological situations, and without proper understanding of its current and future status, it is impossible to work in this field. Considering that Iran has small portion of the linguistics market in the cyberspace, solutions are needed with a view to expand it so that the appropriate policies can be developed for the above-mentioned branch. In this article, firstly, the linguistics history, development, importance and application and then its relationship with cyber linguistics are discussed and finally, by examining the harms and challenges of the online space, the current situation and drawing of the ecosystem of cyber linguistics, attempts have been made to explore the related challenges whereby it presents linguistic solutions to face them and that the role of the government in providing a suitable platform for this field is explained.