Who wrote it? Who said it? Is this text similar to that one? Can we group those texts together? Is this text really what it purports to be? What can we know about the kind of person who generated this text --age, dialect, native language?

These are the kinds of questions that can turn an investigation around, and each one relies on language as evidence. Linguistic evidence can and has already played a crucial role in homeland security, counter-terrorism, criminal and civil investigations, national intelligence, business intelligence and executive protection.

LESLI is an interdisciplinary journal for linguists, computer scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, attorneys, law enforcement, security executives, and intelligence analysts. As the journal of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence and its membership TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence, LESLI provides a forum to present rigorous research, requests for research, and policy discussions.

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Use the Register link at the top of this page. As a registered reader, you will receive the Table of Contents by email for each new issue of the journal. See the journal's Privacy Statement, so you that know that your name and email address will not be used for other purposes. Thank you in advance for registering as registration allows the journal to keep track of your support and total readership.

AUTHORS

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting.

When you register, be sure that you check Author role (Reader is checked by default). If you do not have Author checked you will not be able to submit a manuscript online. If you have already registered, and you cannot find a place to submit, then go to your profile and make sure that the Author role is checked.

If you have already registered and your profile includes the Author role, you can can simply log in and begin the five-step submission process.

LIBRARIANS AND CYBRARIANS

Thank you in advance for listing this journal among your library's electronic journal holdings. We highly recommend the University of Pittsburgh ULS as our online publisher. LESLI's open source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for your faculty and corporate members to use with journals they are involved in editing (see Open Journal Systems).

TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence

TALE is a professional organization for researcher-practitioners in forensic linguistics and professionals in security, law, criminal justice and intelligence. For more information, including membership eligibility requirements, our Honorary Fellows and conferences, please visit www.LinguisticEvidence.org  and TALE-ForensicLinguistics.org

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