FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF SUICIDE LINGUISTIC PATTERNS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS

Abstract

Suicide notes refer to those notes which are left explicitly by those persons who committed this or who thought about this. These notes or letters contain unsaid and left thoughts they could not describe or express. The approach that was used in this study is qualitative analysis. This research intends to analyze the critical linguistic features and psychological aspects used in these notes. The data that was analyzed was taken from eleven individuals. Researchers individually read every letter, then analyzed, described and classified every note and used five essential features of linguistics, which includes Expressing sentiments and emotions, Structure of the text, Vivid reasoning, Use of punctuation, Grammar and Vocabulary.

When researchers investigated those notes based on these features, they found that clear reasoning provides the most valid information about the situation and problems through which the victims went through. Through this approach, getting the point of view of those victims was relatively easy. In consequence, we can get more information about the analysis of suicidal notes in the field of forensic linguistics.