Introduction
The Institute of Applied Linguistics (IULA)
at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
(Barcelona, Spain) will host the 2nd European IAFL Conference
on Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law. The meeting
is a 3-day conference on forensic linguistics / language
and law, to be held from the 14th to the 16th of September
2006.
PAPERS & POSTERS will deal with all aspects of forensic
linguistics / language and law including, but not limited
to the following:
- Legal Languages
- Legal Discourse
- Language minorities and the legal system
- Law on language
- Forensic linguistic expertise
COLLOQUIA:
- Communication and Comprehensibility in Legal Contexts
- Law and Cognition
The official language of the Second European IAFL Conference
on Forensic Linguistics / Language & the Law is English.
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
Location
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
La Rambla 30-32
08002 Barcelona (Spain)
Organized by:
Organising Committee:
M. Teresa Turell (conference chairperson), Jordi Cicres,
Marta Sánchez, Maria Spassova, Vanessa Alonso, Jesús
Carrasco, Sylvie Hochart, Gemma Martínez
Contact: iulaforensic@upf.edu.
For direct enquiries please contact Ms. Maria Spassova.
Tel. (34) 935 422 332 (Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am - 1pm)
Sponsored by:
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Facultat de Traducció i Interpretació
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Departament de Traducció Filologia (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra)
- Ariza Investigadors (detectius privats Llic. 1389 i
1968)
