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Dr. Robert Leonard is qualified
to discuss:
- Forensic Linguistics As Applied to U.S. Law
- Language
- Conceptual Systems such as Identity, Food Behavior, and Architectural
and Public Space
- Anthropology of Food
- Swahili
- Linguistics
- Language and Culture
Professor Leonard's specialty of
forensic linguistics applies the science of linguistic investigation to
issues of U.S. law. Forensic linguistics augments legal analysis by applying
rigorous, scientifically accepted principles of analysis to legal evidence
like contracts, confessions, and recorded speech.
Dr. Leonard has served as consultant on language and intercultural matters
to clients that include The New Yorker magazine, law firms, advertising
agencies, television networks, police and government agencies. While an
undergraduate at Columbia University, Dr. Leonard co-founded and led the
rock group Sha Na Na, and as bass and lead singer performed at the Woodstock
Festival, the Fillmores East and West, on television's "The Tonight Show,"
and in the Academy Award-winning "Woodstock" movie. Dr. Leonard has had
extensive experience in the media, both as a recording artist and performer,
and as an academic leader in his field.
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LEONARD IN THE NEWS
Sept. 29, 2005 - USA Today
'Connotation
is no longer in a vacuum'
April 28, 2005 - Newsday
Police
interrogation needs videotape
March 27, 2005 - The New York Times
He
Knows the Meaning of Be-Bop-a-Lula
A feature story was written on Dr. Leonard and his journey from a member
of Sha Na Na to a forensic linguistic professor at Hofstra.
PUBLICATIONS
Forensic
Linguistics in NYPD Blue
Linguistics and the Law
The
Background, Theory and Application of Forensic Linguistics
Newsday, Viewpoints
Black
English Equals Any Other Language
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