David Wright – Forensic and Legal Linguist

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