An Interdisciplinary Approach in Forensic Sciences: Etiology, Methodologies and Importance of Forensic Linguistics

This paper aims at inscribing Forensic Linguistics within the variegate field of Forensic sciences. After a deep and meticulous description of the state of art of Forensic Linguistics from 1960s until now, we propose all of the methodologies, concerning both the written and the oral facies of this linguistic discipline applied to Forensic field, and so we focused on methods used in transcriptions and in Speaker and Speech Recognition analyses. Then, the discussion outlined the importance for Forensic Linguistics to be considered as a proper scientific discipline: in this way, its methods and its results could be tested and replied by the scientific community, by verifying the uncontested principle of scientific cumulability.