Analysis of linguistic features of swindler Case study of Semnan Province

This study is conducted in a descriptive and analytical way to explain the features of swindlers' spoken language from the view point of forensic linguistics. Fraud is a language crime in which, language plays a main role in forming it. The authors are trying to analyze the speech of two people accused of fraud from the first stages of investigation, to interrogation and court hearing in Semnan province judicial system. The results indicate that background knowledge and language politeness are the main and fixed speech features for this group of offenders. Survey data also indicate that these people also use the principles of friendly performance, giving false hope, appropriate behavior with speech, justification principle, indirect threat, different ways of persuasion, considering religious context, foregrounding and backgrounding principles and other similar techniques appropriate to the context and situation.