Third and last Call for Papers
Call deadline: March
2, 2006
(1) INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
are invited and they should deal with all aspects of forensic
linguistics/language and law including, but not limited
to the following:
Legal Languages
- The history of legal languages
- The role of literacy in legal languages
- Technicality in legal languages
- Written legal genres (including warnings)
- Critical approaches to legal languages
- Language education for law professionals
Legal Discourse
- Courtroom language
- Police and prison language
- The role of narrative in legal discourse
- Structures/macrogenres of court proceedings across
systems
- Bilingual courtrooms
- Power and common law examination
- Language addressed to the judge and jury in common
law courtrooms
- The readability/comprehensibility of legal documents
- The analysis/interpretation of legal texts/statutes
- The comprehensibility of the police caution issued
to suspects
- Interviews with children in the legal system
- The communicative challenges of ‘vulnerable’
witnesses
Language minorities and the legal system
- Language testing of asylum seekers
- Language and disadvantage before the law
- Courtroom interpreting and translating
Law on language
- Language rights
- The right to silence
- Offensive language/Group vilification
Forensic linguistic expertise
- Voice profiling and identification
- Linguistic determination of nationality
- Computerized writer profiling
- Authorship
- Trademarks
- Deception and fraud
- Plagiarism
Presentation slots will be 30 minutes long, including
questions.
Abstracts should be 250-300 words long and should be submitted
using the Electronic Submission Form
(2) COLLOQUIA,
scheduled for 2-hour blocks, with a maximum of two linked
sessions. Organizers may organize as they choose, but time
should be allocated for presentations, discussion and audience
response. Organizers serve as the liaison between participants
and the conference organizers. Proposals will also be reviewed
by the scientific committee.
Proposals should be 250-300 words long, with an indication
of participants and a brief description of their contribution.
Scientific committee:
- Enrique Alcaraz
- Janet Cotterill
- Malcolm Coulthard
- Diana Eades
- Elena Ferran
- John Gibbons
- Krzysztof Kredens
- Peter Patrick
- Frances Rock
- Peter Tiersma
- M. Teresa Turell
Keynote plenary speakers:
- Enrique Alcaraz
- Michelle Aldridge
- Ron Butters
- Malcolm Coulthard
- Philip Harrison
- June Luchjenbroers
- Lawrence M. Solan
