Dr. John Olsson
Forensic Linguistics Intelligence
Dr John Olsson
It is with regret and sorrow that we announce, to those not aware, that Dr John Olsson sadly passed away in June 2021.
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Forensic Linguistics Intelligence
Forensic linguistics: the analysis of language to detect authorship and to interpret meaning
Dr John Olsson was the world's first full time forensic linguist and practised as a forensic linguist for 25 years, instructing prosecutors, solicitors and police forces across the United Kingdom.
Forensic Cases
Cases involving the FLI include:
Civil Action between Random House / Dan Brown and Lewis Perdue
Declaration in the Random House vs Lewis Perdue Case
Translating rap and gang language of group scamming Paypal, BT and consumers:
bbc.co.uk news [external site]
Authorship analysis of diaries in connection with university lecturer's
murder:
the guardian.com news [external site]
Forensic Linguistics
Authorship is the method used by a forensic linguist to determine who the author of a particular document is. Note that authorship is not handwriting analysis: it is only concerned with the actual language used. Authorship involves analysing documents of all types: letters, emails, mobile phone texts and any other electronically produced item of text. Dr Olsson has analysed thousands of documents for authorship, and has written reports in over 500 cases, both criminal and civil.
