[EDLING:1800] CFP: 8th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law

[Tamara Warhol]

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Full Title: 8th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and 
Law
Short Title: IAFL

Date: 12-Jul-2007 - 15-Jul-2007
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Contact Person: Gail Stygall
Meeting Email: stygallu.washington.edu
Web Site: http://depts.washington.edu/iafl

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2006

Meeting Description:

The International Association of Forensic Linguists will meet for its 8th
Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, in 
Seattle, WA, at
the University of Washington, July 12-15th, 2007.

IAFL 8 2007 invites proposals for panels and papers for its 8th Biennial
Conference to be held July 12-15, 2007, at the University of Washington in
Seattle, WA. We are particularly interested in seeing panels proposed on 
the
topics of ''Law Enforcement and Forensic Linguistics'' and ''The State of
Forensic Linguistics'' in individual countries. Individual paper 
proposals are
also welcome on any topic related to forensic linguistics and, more 
generally,
language and law. Panels and individual paper proposals may address all 
aspects
of these general topic areas, and include any of the following:

courtroom discourse;
police interviews and interrogations;
courtroom interpreting and translation;
the readability/comprehensibility of legal documents;
analysis and interpretation of legal texts;
comprehensibility of police warnings and cautions to suspects;
interviews with children in the legal system;
''vulnerable'' witnesses in legal settings;
linguistic evidence in the courtroom;
authorship/speaker identification;
teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law.

Abstract deadline is September 30, 2006.
Send electronic proposals to Gail Stygall at the contact email address.

Individual abstracts should be 200-250 words and 750-1000 words for 
panels of
3-4 presenters. Abstracts should include the presenters' names, addresses,
affiliation, and email address(es). International proposals will be read 
by the
local committee first in order to allow international presenters to make
conference travel arrangements.

Updates on conference details will be posted periodically to the website.