Sheila QueraltIn addition to being one of the few specialists in the world in anonymous analysis, she has a doctorate in Language Sciences and works as a judicial expert in Forensic Linguistics.
Your book Trapped by the tongue. 50 cases solved by forensic linguistics It is a casual approach to his work, as well as all the facets of this discipline, the curiosities, and the most notorious cases in history.
Miss Marple of the tongue
Sheila is like Miss Marple either sherlock holmes, but its clues are based exclusively on the characteristics of the language: the way a person expresses themselves, both orally and in writing, since in this one can find singularities that offer a lot of information. Even to the point of being able to find out who wrote an anonymous letter.
We are, therefore, before a type of research that is very little known and that is often confused with other disciplines. For example, a forensic linguist does not analyze the shape of the letter (that is what calligraphers do), nor do they extract personality traits of the author from their signature (that is what graphologists do). Nor does it carry out psychological profiles of the perpetrator of a crime, a task carried out by criminal profilers.
Trapped by the language: 50 cases solved by Forensic Linguistics (LAROUSSE – Illustrated/Practical Books – Art and culture)
What does a forensic linguist, for example, is to find a clue in the recordings of Anabel Segura's kidnappers or the alleged drug trafficker from Barcelona who spent 626 days in an Italian prison, and other cases that are astonishing due to the degree of scrutiny to which any sound, any detail in the accent, any particularity when writing, in order to find out not only the identity of the author, but a whole constellation of contextual data.
Furthermore, the book is not written in a technical or boring way, but rather the author accompanies us page by page almost hand in hand, contaminating us with her good humor and enthusiasm, until we feel what day to day work is like.
To discover a little more about the book and the author, you can do so in the following interview that she was kind enough to grant me:
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