Assuming Identities Online: Experimental Linguistics Applied to the Policing of Online Paedophile Activity
Assuming Identities Online: Experimental Linguistics Applied to the Policing of Online Paedophile Activity
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在线假设身份：实验语言学应用于在线恋童癖活动的监管
DOI：
10.1093/applin/amv079
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Grant T
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Grant T
本文使用一个研究项目到性犯罪者和他们虐待的儿童的在线对话，以进一步的实验工作作为语言学家的研究工具的可接受性的论点。这里报告的研究有助于语言学中越来越多的工作，这些工作发现实验方法在回答有关语言表达的表征和限制的问题方面是有用的（Hemforth 2013）。更广泛的项目审查在线恋童癖活动中的在线身份假设以及对此类活动的监管，并涉及处理高度敏感的性修饰记录的语言分析。在该项目的语言学部分，我们通过分析网络性虐待的肇事者的“谈话”，以及必须承担替代身份以调查此类犯罪的卧底人员，来研究个人语言和身份的理论。本文的基本语言学问题是方法论问题，涉及实验工作对探索在线身份和身份伪装的适用性。虽然我们触及经验问题，如语言描述的充分性，将使令人信服的身份伪装，我们不详细探讨实验结果。尽管在一系列的话语分析范式的“自然发生的”数据的偏好，我们认为，不仅这个词证明概念上的问题，但在某些情况下，特别是在应用法医上下文描述，拒绝实验引出的数据将限制可能的类型和程度的分析。因此，它将限制学术语言学在解决一个严重的社会问题方面所能做出的贡献。
This article uses a research project into the online conversations of sex offenders and the children they abuse to further the arguments for the acceptability of experimental work as a research tool for linguists. The research reported here contributes to the growing body of work within linguistics that has found experimental methods to be useful in answering questions about representation and constraints on linguistic expression (Hemforth 2013). The wider project examines online identity assumption in online paedophile activity and the policing of such activity, and involves dealing with the linguistic analysis of highly sensitive sexual grooming transcripts. Within the linguistics portion of the project, we examine theories of idiolect and identity through analysis of the ‘talk’ of perpetrators of online sexual abuse, and of the undercover officers that must assume alternative identities in order to investigate such crimes. The essential linguistic question in this article is methodological and concerns the applicability of experimental work to exploration of online identity and identity disguise. Although we touch on empirical questions, such as the sufficiency of linguistic description that will enable convincing identity disguise, we do not explore the experimental results in detail. In spite of the preference within a range of discourse analytical paradigms for ‘naturally occurring’ data, we argue that not only does the term prove conceptually problematic, but in certain contexts, and particularly in the applied forensic context described, a rejection of experimentally elicited data would limit the possible types and extent of analyses. Thus, it would restrict the contribution that academic linguistics can make in addressing a serious social problem.