Introduction Programme Abstracts Call for papers Registration Accomodation & Travel information

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. They should be submitted by email to: teresa.turell@upf.edu

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