Dr Krzysztof Kredens

Qualifications

• MA in English Studies (Lodz)
• PhD in English Linguistics (Lodz)

Teaching

Postgraduate:

• Analysing Written and Spoken Discourse
• Forensic Linguistics

Undergraduate: 

• Language in Society
• Sounds in Action
• Language as Evidence
• Language and Law
• Linguistics of the Individual

Responsibilities

• Course Director, International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis
• Deputy Director, Centre for Forensic Linguistics

Membership of Professional Bodies

International Association of Forensic Linguists

Research Interests

Forensic linguistics, linguistics of the individual speaker, corpus linguistics, translation studies, public service interpreting

Selected Publications

Books

Bogucki, L. and Kredens, K. (eds.), Perspectives on Audiovisual Translation, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Mein 2010

Kredens, K. and Roszkowski, S. (eds.), Language and the Law: International Outlooks, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Mein 2007

Walinski, J., Kredens, K. and Roszkowski, S. (eds.), Corpora and ICT in Language Studies, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Mein 2007

Book chapters and papers

Kredens, K. and Coulthard, M. “Corpus Linguistics in Authorship Identification”, In Tiersma, P. and Solan, L., The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law, forthcoming

Kredens, K. and Morris, R. “’A Shattered Mirror?’ Interpreting in legal contexts outside the courtrooom”, In Coulthard, M. and Johnson, A., The Routledge Hanbook of Forensic Linguistics, 2010

Coulthard, M., Grant, T. and Kredens, K. ”Forensic Linguistics”, In Wodak R., Johnstone, B. and Kerswill, P (eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics, Thousand Oaks and London: SAGE Publications 2010

Kredens, K. “On the status of linguistic evidence in litigation”, In: P. Nowak and P. Nowakowski (eds.) Language, Communication, Information 1(1), Sorus Publishers, Poznan 2006

Kredens, K. “Language corpora in forensic linguistics”, In: B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (editor) Introduction to corpus linguistics [in Polish], Lodz University Press, Lodz 2005

Kredens, K. “Towards a corpus-based methodology of forensic authorship attribution: a comparative study of two idiolects”, In: B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (editor) PALC’01: Practical Applications in Language Corpora, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Mein 2002

Kredens, K. “Idiolect in authorship attribution”, In: Folia Linguistica Anglica 4, Lodz University Press, Lodz 2002