David Wright is a forensic and legal linguist. His research applies methods of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in forensic and legal contexts.
He is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where he has worked since 2014 after finishing his PhD. His research spans across a range of intersections between language and the law, crime and justice. His research specialisms and ongoing projects are:
- Corpus approaches to discourse in legal contexts
- Cross-examination of vulnerable and intimated witnesses
- Courtroom discourse and the language of advocacy
- The language of sentencing remarks
- Authorship analysis and idiolect
- Procedures of voice identification evidence
- Linguistic discrimination in the media
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