Identify the criteria/standard(s) that define the case as the particular type of language crime.

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Submit a proposal for the Final Project. This proposal should include the name of the case, the description of the case and the language-related issue in the case, the legal criteria/standards that define the language crime, the linguistic evidence, your proposed linguistic analysis of a piece(s) of linguistic evidence (e.g., discourse analysis) and identify the subsystem of language relevant to this analysis.
LIN 250 Final Project: Analyzing a Crime of Language

The Final Project should include the name of the case, the description of the case and the language-related issue in the case, the legal criteria/standards that define the language crime, the linguistic evidence, your linguistic analysis of a piece(s) of linguistic evidence (e.g., discourse analysis) and identify the subsystem(s) of language relevant to this analysis. Finally, the implications of the linguistic analysis of the linguistic evidence in the case/crime.
Follow these directions carefully to achieve the best grade possible:
1. Under Course Materials and/or Assignments, open the “FL Data” folder and you will be find a number of files that contain numerous crimes of language.
2. You may choose one of the following: Threats, Twitter Threats, Ransom Notes, False Confessions, Wiretap/Undercover Transcripts, Solicitation, Conspiracy or Bribery.
3. Your analysis should involve a full description of the overall pragmatic information of the case. Consider this to be a summary of the overall circumstances, the participants, the criminal charge(s), the linguistic evidence, etc.
4. Pick one piece of oral or written linguistic evidence, and if it is a long example or there are multiple pieces of linguistic evidence, then focus on one piece of evidence and/or one portion of it for discourse/topic analysis.
5. Identify the criteria/standard(s) that define the case as the particular type of language crime.
6. Identify the subsystems of language connected to your analysis and/or an expert’s analysis, types of speech acts, directness/indirectness/ambiguity, the presence (or lack thereof) of the Cooperative Principle, and the presence of “plausible deniability” (if applicable).
7. Project format:
8. Step #1: Written response in the form of an essay submitted via Bb Assignments
9. Step #2: PowerPoint Presentation or Prezi (or other multimedia response) oral presentation in class.
APA in-text and bibliographic citations are required for your discourse/topic analysis (use our textbook, articles on the class website and/or articles you find) and a list of those resources at the end of your project. Note: Your grade will be lowered if you do not include secondary resources in the final project. Any project revisions would only be accepted up to last day of class this semester.

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