Discourse Features of Fraud and Deception Letters  

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Karjo, Clara Herlina

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 14 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keempat Belas, page 362-365.
Topik: Fraud and deception; Discourse feature; Forensic linguistics; e-mails
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Internet has made it possible for people all around the world to get connected, especially through text-based computer mediated communication (e-mails). Unfortunately, some of these e-mails are intended to deceive or to take advantage of the receivers. This kind of e-mails can be considered as fraud and deception letters (FDL) since their main objective is to trick people into believing that they will get financial advantage from the senders. While a number of previous researches focus on how to detect lying in oral communication, this study offers the possibility of detecting lies in textbased computer mediated communication, or in other words, in fraud and deception e-mails. Lying often involves creating a story that never happens, thus liars need to fabricate their languages to make their lies believable. There are two objectives that will be addressed in this study. The first one is to find out the common linguistic cues shared in the letters, and secondly, to display the discourse structures of FDLs. Data will be collected from the writer’s personal emails which can be categorized as fraud and deception letters. There are five letters used in this study, each letter ranges between 102 until 552 words, amounting to a total of 1903 words. The data will first be analyzed with a concordancer program for their linguistic cues such as word quantity, pronoun use, emotion words and markers of cognitive complexity (Pennebaker, et al., 2003). After finding the linguistic cues of deception in the data, all letters will be compared part by part to find out the common discourse structure shared by those letters. Analysis will be done using theories of forensic linguistic, discourse analysis, and Grice’s maxims of conversation. The results of this study is expected to shed light on the discourse features of fraud and deception letters and hopefully to increase readers’ awareness in detecting lies in language.

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