Quote from: centi50 on October 31, 2024, 04:11:23 AMSalam Mazhar why don't you do a rebuttal
Since your expertise in linguistics forensics as say
God bless all
Salamun alaika; 12 days back I commented on the video
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We are today in Forensic Linguistics era. Gentleman why don't you carry out forensic check of the documents you have in your hand?
Just open it and you will find the first direction to people like you is to carry out forensic test.
It is worldwide assumption that the concept of Forensic Linguistics was introduced for the first time by the linguistic professor Jan Svartvik (1968) in his book "The Evans Statements: A Case for Forensic Linguistics". Earlier the word "forensic" was used by Frederick A. Philbrick in the title of his book on legal English; Language and the Law: the Semantics of Forensic English.
They both relate to criminal justice. It is legal linguistics, or language and the law. It can be construed as a branch of Forensic science, also known as criminalistics that involves the collection and analysis of evidence.
The primary objective of Forensic linguistics is linguistic evidence in legal proceedings. It is all about identification of whether what is attributed to a given individual to have said/spoken or wrote is factually his speech or authorship. Reliance is placed on analysis of idiolect, or particular patterns of language use; vocabulary, collocations, pronunciation, spelling, and grammar.
Forensic stylistics is the discipline that subjects written or spoken material, or both, to scientific analysis for identifying plagiarism.
But that is not the whole truth. The first ever dispute about the authorship of written text relates to serial publication of the Book titled Qur'ān. Its publisher elevated Messenger Muhammad (Sal'lallaa'ho'alaih'wa'salam)1 claimed it is verbatim transcription of: كَلَٟمُ ٱللَّهِ, the Speech - Parlance of Allah the Exalted. But certain elite and their coterie intelligentsia of Mecca disputed and alleged it is his personal authorship which he has diligently and purposely personally written and that he plagiarises. They told their tribesmen that he is of course intelligent educated person but has now become deluded.
A good author is obviously the one who knows the problems or irritating confusions of audience and tells them how to solve it. Since the first confusion feigned by the adamant elite was about authorship, that may have truly perplexed some general public, it is the first problem addressed at the very outset of Qur'ān. Strangely and amazingly the Grand Qur'ān firstly introducing it as unique book touches the question about its authorship and then asks to verify it (2:2 read with 2:23;10:38). And later expanded forensic analysis and comparison is proposed with reference to ten chapters in Ayah 11:13. And still later by reference to entire Discourse in Ayah 52:34.
They are asked, for resolving their perplexity if it is genuinely perceived about its authorship, to undertake bringing in some literary work created by a joint venture of all the Arabic knowing scholars that has some resemblance to it. Failing it, and emphasising this failure of creating a discourse in its semblance will persist in time-space, those are rebuked and warned to remain mindful of the heated and scorching Hell-Prison who are feigning confusion and propagate against its Divine Origin. It has also the value of a "challenge" which still stands in the present era of computer, corpus and forensic linguistic. Grand Qur'ān is the only in the list of revered books that prompted and asked and is still asking, since over 1400 years, for its forensic analysis for its questioned authorship and organization of intellectual property.
