25.3503, Calls: Forensic Ling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling, Computational Ling/Poland

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Subject: 25.3503, Calls: Forensic Ling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling, Computational Ling/Poland

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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:54:49
From: Joanna Nowak-Michalska [lingua.legis at gmail.com]
Subject: 10th Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics

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Full Title: 10th Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics 

Date: 19-Jun-2015 - 21-Jun-2015
Location: Poznań, Poland 
Contact Person: Aleksandra Matulewska
Meeting Email: lingua.legis at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl/?lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world. 

The conference will be held over 3 days, from 19-21 June (Friday-Sunday) 2015 in Poznan, Poland.

Plenary Speakers:

Information will be available later.

Registrations should be submitted to the following address: lingua.legis at gmail.com

Conference Fee:

Early payment by 20 March 2015: €110
Payment from 21 March to 20 May 2015: €150
Payment after 21 May or on arrival: €200

The conference fee includes the cost of the conference gala dinner, 2 lunches, tea breaks and publication of papers after positive reviews.

We kindly request you to pay the fee into the following account:

Bank Account Details:
Adam Mickiewicz University
BZ WBK 
IBAN: PL 77 1090 1362 0000 0000 3601 7903
Swift: WBK PPLPP
For: 711 802 your name and surname
Note: It is vital that you place on your money transfer the following number: 711 802. 

No partial registration is envisaged, so it will not be possible to register for just one or two days.
We do not accept credit cards.

Cancellation Policy:

In case of cancellations the conference fee is not refunded. However, the contributors may submit their papers.

Call for Papers:

We invite papers on the following topics:

Forensic Linguistics in General:

(I) (Comparative) forensic linguistics
(ii) Forensic phonetics
(iii) Forensic authorship attribution
(iv) Forensic stylistic
(v) Linguists as expert witnesses
(vi) Linguistic features of forgeries and counterfeits of public documents

Legal Translation and Court Interpreting:

(I) Legal translation
(ii) Court interpreting
(iii) Teaching legal translation and court interpreting
(iv) Certified translators and interpreters in legal proceedings 
(v) Mistranslation and misinterpreting in legal context

Legal Languages and Legal Discourse:

(I) Legal linguistics
(ii) History of legal language
(iii) Legal terminology
(iv) Legal genres
(v) EU legal language
(vi) Analysis of legal discourse
(vii) Structure and semantics of statutes and other legal instruments;
(viii) Development of legal languages
(ix) Legal and linguistic interpretation of texts formulated in legal language
(x) Teaching legal language
(xi) Speech style in the courtroom
(xii) Comprehensibility of legal instruments
(xiii) Plain Language Campaigns
(xiv) Linguistic aspects of cross-examination
(xv) Technicality in legal language

History of Law and Legal Systems:

(I) History of legal systems
(ii) Comparative study of legal systems
(iii) Common law versus civil law countries

Laws on Languages:

(I) Language rights
(ii) Linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights
(iii) Language and disadvantage before the law

Submission:

Session proposals and any questions should be submitted to the following address:

lingua.legis at gmail.com

Presentation slots should not exceed 30 minutes (20 minutes long presentation plus 10 minutes for questions). Power Point presentations are invited (Power Point MS Office 98-2003). Papers from the conference will be published after reviews.

The abstracts should be sent by the end of February 2015.
Abstract acceptance notification: 15 March 2015
Submission of full papers: 30 August 2015

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