Dr Krzysztof Kredens

Qualifications

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

Teaching

Postgraduate:

• Analysing Written and Spoken Discourse

Undergraduate: 

• Language in Society
• Language as Evidence
• Language and Law

Responsibilities

• Course Director, International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis
• Interdisciplinary Studies Tutor
• Chair, Postgraduate Staff-Student Consultative Committee

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

Publications

Selected publications

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

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