Abstract
This study aims to review published research articles that studied digital text crimes, which are deception and defamation based on forensic linguistic point of view. The authors developed three inquiries: linguistic aspects, the selection of research design, and the trend of studies that discussed deceptions and defamations within published scientific articles. The data were twenty published articles on deceptions and twenty on defamations. The authors selected the data from Harzing’s Publish or Perish and Mendeley Reference Manager. The descriptive qualitative research method was applied in this study. For deception, 60% of the articles utilized a morphosyntax perspective of analysis, and the trend shows that deception studies were frequently implemented by email (40%) from 2018 to 2021. The findings capture that deception acts through email were investigated with linguistic morphosyntax aspect. This shows that people are getting deceived by word-tricks. Whereas, for defamations published studies, it is observed that the mix of semantic and pragmatic was most selected (50%), and 75% of defamation cases in digital discourse occurred on social media platforms from 2019 to 2022. Thus, the findings reveal that defamation acts through social media were studied from a pragmatic perspective, this shows that defamation acts generally appear in a language interaction. Both deception and defamation studies mostly applied the qualitative descriptive design. Conclusively, this present study is accomplished in portraying the trend of digital crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the significance of linguistics analysis in forensic investigations.
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Nana Raihana Askurny, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Indonesia
Syihabuddin, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Amrin Saragih, Universitas Negeri Medan, Indonesia
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Conference: KAMC2024
Stream: Language and Cultural Studies
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Askurny N., Syihabuddin ., & Saragih A. (2024) Forensic Linguistics: Deception and Defamation of Digital Discourse ISSN: 2436-0503 – The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 625-638) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.53
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.53
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