Forensic linguistics

Rasoolpuri · Post by **Rasoolpuri** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:27 pm

Whether forensic linguistics is useful to identify language of an asylum seeker ,when his/her language is being spoken in several countries.

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:45 pm

Depends entirely on the quality of the investigation.

Rasoolpuri · Post by **Rasoolpuri** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:20 am

Sir

Kindly tell about demands and rules of best quality for analysis of language of asylum seeker ,when his/her language is being spoken in several countries.

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:33 am

I'm afraid you'll have to give more details of what the exact requirements are.

Are you supposed to say whether an asylum seeker comes from where he claims to, based on a forensic analysis of his language?

Rasoolpuri · Post by **Rasoolpuri** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:54 am

Probelm is ,that a person wants asylum in England .He has no document .He says that his language is Balochi and he belongs with Afghanistan ,where his life is in danger .This case has been sent to a forensic linguist ,now how he will judge that this person belong with Afghanistan when Balochi language is being spoken in Iran .Pakistan and Afghanistan

Stephen Jones wrote:I'm afraid you'll have to give more details of what the exact requirements are.

Are you supposed to say whether an asylum seeker comes from where he claims to, based on a forensic analysis of his language?

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:08 pm

Let's change the context slightly and presume that an undocumented asylum seeker has claimed political asylum in Baluchistan.

The asylum seeker claims he comes from the United Kingdom, and a forensic linguist has been asked to judge the case. Will he be able to draw a reasonable conclusion, bearing in mind that English is spoken in many other countries, including America, Australia Canada and Zimbabwe.

I think you will agree that it should not be too hard to come to a reasonable conclusion as to whether the applicant comes from the United Kingdom, or from another English speaking area. Now obviously a full life story would be needed to check for linguistic contamination caused by extended stays in other English speaking countries, but even so, the job is not impossible, and the difficulty will reside in finding linguists who have both the appropriate theoretical social linguistic training and the command of the language and knowledge of the culture of the Unitied Kingdom.

And there of course is where the difficulty is likely to be in this case. Is it possible to find an expert who is both a native baluchi speaker with a profound knowledge of all variants of Afghan Baluchi, and has full training in the theoretical aspects involved. I would be very dubious.

Rasoolpuri · Post by **Rasoolpuri** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:02 am

Thank you sir for so much detailed reply

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