O estilo do crime: análise de texto em estilística forense

Text authorship identification is one of a number of techniques developed by forensic linguistics, a discipline that uses linguistic analysis to provide evidence that can be used in the dispensation of justice. In forensic stylistics, text analysts try to characterise the choices made in particular texts as unequivocally as possible, focusing upon idiosyncrasies. The safest method seems to be to combine statistical analyses (text stylometry) with the kind of stylistic research (graphic, syntactical, lexical and textual) usually used in text analysis. This paper uses this methodology to analyse a text that has circulated on the internet since 2009 under the name of journalist Clara Ferreira Alves.