A LITERATURE REVIEW OF HATE SPEECH:  FORENSIC LINGUISTICS STUDY

Authors

  • Nur Afnita Asfar Master of Linguistic, Warmadewa University Author

Keywords:

Hate speech; linguistic; forensic linguistics

Abstract

 Language is something that all people have, so all languages (and different ways of saying the same  thing) are the same. In other words, they all share the exact genetic blueprint and are equally "human." The aim  of the research is to describe a literature review of hate speech: forensic linguistics study. This research employs a descriptive methodology. Some forensic linguistics-related publications and papers comprise the  data for this study. The result shows that with the help of forensic linguistics, it is possible to look into how  people talk about legal issues arising from it. As an interdisciplinary field, forensic linguistics analyzes and  defines courtroom language as evidence for police, judges, and attorneys. Forensic linguistics looks at texts  like emergency calls, ransom demands and other threats, suicide letters, last words from death row, and  confessions and denials by public figures. In addition, several areas of forensic linguistics can be investigated  in legal matters, including auditory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, interpretation of expressed meaning  (semantics), interpretation of inferred meaning (discourse and pragmatics), stylistics, and questioned  authorship, the language of the law, language of the courtroom, interpretation, and translation. it may be decided that speech and language are inextricably linked and cannot be separated. 

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Published

2025-09-09

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