The aim of this article is to verify whether and to what extent the imitation of another person’s writing style is possible. For this purpose, two literary texts ‒ Saturnin by Zdeněk Jirotka (1943) and Saturnin se vrací by Miroslav Macek (2017) ‒ have been analyzed. The text comparison makes use of some identification methods from forensic linguistics that are focused on language features that are less striking, but significant from the identification perspective.
From the linguistic point of view, anonymous letters represent a valuable textual material. Nevertheless, they are mostly unavailable to majority of linguists due to their strict confidentiality. This article attempts to illustrate a specific character of such a linguistic analysis – authorʼs identification – the an older case: a series of defamatory and threatening letters concerning one family.
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