Forensic Linguistics in the Philippines

An excellent article about the introduction of Forensic Linguistics to the Philippines FORENSIC LINGUISTICS Educators Speak By MARILU RAÑOSA-MADRUNIO, Ph.D. - UST November 3, 2012, 7:29pm THERE is a new subfield of linguistics – the scientific study of language – that has attracted attention and it is called Forensic Linguistics (or FL). In a recent summer school held for the first time in Asia, I was fortunate to study under Prof. Malcolm Coulthard of Aston University, United Kingdom, and Prof. John Gibbons of Monash University, Australia. Together they founded the professional organization for FL in 1993 and they subsequently headed the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL), an organization of forensic linguists and researchers worldwide. Profs. Coulthard and Gibbons brought the first training on FL to Asia last July in collaboration with Dr. Azirah Hashim of the University of Malaya under the auspices of the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis (ISSFLA). While this subfield has been explored in European countries and the US for some time now, it is just catching the attention of scholars in Asia. The University of Santo Tomas, which I represented during the training, is a lead institution from the Philippines that intends to offer the course as part of its graduate degree program. Please follow the link to read the whole article.