Imprecisiones terminológicas derivadas de la traducción en el ámbito de la lingüística forense

Abstract

In a restrictive sense, Forensic Linguistics can be defined as the discipline whose main objective is the study of language as evidence, that means that it deals with the analysis of language evidences when they are involved in a legal process or a police investigation. This field of applied linguistics has a relatively short scientific history, since the very first appearance of the term is dated in 1968. For this reason, certain aspects of the subject are still in development or need further consolidation. One of the problems that should be solved are those related to its terminology, which does not present the same level of standardization or the same difficulties in all languages. Specifically, in this paper, the terminological problems caused by translation from English to Spanish will be discussed.