It may happen that you inherit a case that someone else opened. Besides financial documents, all...

  

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It may happen that you inherit a case that someone else opened. Besides financial documents, all you have are the written statements from witnesses and suspects. Can you tell enough from words alone to detect evasion, lack of cooperation and the intent to deceive? Yes, you can. Semantics is a discipline concerned with the meaning of words and the ways that words combine to form meanings in sentences. The noun "rock," for example, can indicate a stone or a type of music. As a verb, "to rock" indicates the action of causing something to rock (rock the cradle) or to rock oneself in a chair (rocking on the front porch) or a form of party-time behavior ("we were rocking last night"). Anytime you interpret someone's words - during a conversation, or as part of your professional duties - you are practicing semantics. Here is one example of semantic analysis: 2. Verb tense. Truthful people usually describe historical events in the past tense. Deceptive people sometimes refer to past events as if the events were occurring in the present. Describing past events using the present tense suggests that people are rehearsing the events in their mind. Investigators should pay particular attention to points in a narrative at which the speaker shifts to inappropriate present tense usage. Consider the following statement made by an employee claiming that a pouch containing $6,000 in cash was stolen before she could deposit it at the bank (I have emphasized certain words.): "After closing the store, I put the cash pouch in my car and drove to the Olympia Bank building on Elm Street. It was raining hard so I had to drive slowly. I entered the parking lot and drove around back to the night depository slot. When I stopped the car and rolled down my window, a guy jumps out of the bushes and yells at me. I can see he has a gun. He grabs the cash pouch and runs away. The last I saw him he was headed south on Elm Street. After he was gone, I called the police on my cell phone and reported the theft." It may happen that you inherit a case that someone else opened. Besides financial documents, all you have are the written statements from witnesses and suspects. Can you tell enough from words alone to detect evasion, lack of cooperation and the intent to deceive? Yes, you can. Semantics is a discipline concerned with the meaning of words and the ways that words combine to form meanings in sentences. The noun "rock," for example, can indicate a stone or a type of music. As a verb, "to rock" indicates the action of causing something to rock (rock the cradle) or to rock oneself in a chair (rocking on the front porch) or a form of party-time behavior ("we were rocking last night"). Anytime you interpret someone's words - during a conversation, or as part of your professional duties - you are practicing semantics. Here is one example of semantic analysis: 2. Verb tense. Truthful people usually describe historical events in the past tense. Deceptive people sometimes refer to past events as if the events were occurring in the present. Describing past events using the present tense suggests that people are rehearsing the events in their mind. Investigators should pay particular attention to points in a narrative at which the speaker shifts to inappropriate present tense usage. Consider the following statement made by an employee claiming that a pouch containing $6,000 in cash was stolen before she could deposit it at the bank (I have emphasized certain words.): "After closing the store, I put the cash pouch in my car and drove to the Olympia Bank building on Elm Street. It was raining hard so I had to drive slowly. I entered the parking lot and drove around back to the night depository slot. When I stopped the car and rolled down my window, a guy jumps out of the bushes and yells at me. I can see he has a gun. He grabs the cash pouch and runs away. The last I saw him he was headed south on Elm Street. After he was gone, I called the police on my cell phone and reported the theft."

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