Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa

Unraveling Justice: Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa

This Element introduces the burgeoning field of forensic linguistics, with a specific focus on its application and development in southern Africa, and more broadly across the African continent.

For decades, forensic linguistics remained largely unrecognized among general linguists, legal scholars, and applied linguists in Africa. However, this is rapidly changing as forensic linguistic studies gain traction in vario…