32.123, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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Subject: 32.123, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:36:21
From: John Pollard [pollarj2 at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: FIFTHTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORENSIC LINGUISTS

 
Full Title: FIFTHTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORENSIC LINGUISTS 
Short Title: IAFL15 

Date: 13-Sep-2021 - 17-Sep-2021
Location: Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: John Pollard
Meeting Email: pollarj2 at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: https://easychair.org/cfp/IAFL2021 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic
Linguists (IAFL) will be hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic
Linguistics (AIFL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK. This will now take place
Monday 13th September - Friday 17th September 2021.

Academic sessions will run Monday to Thursday – with optional social /
cultural trips for delegates and any accompanying family to run at the end of
the conference.

The 15th IAFL conference will be a forum for the discussion of all aspects of
forensic linguistics and language and law. We welcome proposals for individual
papers, posters and panels on, but not limited to, legal discourse, Language
and the legal process, Investigative linguistics and language evidence,
Language and cybercrime, Education and training, and Forensic phonetics and
speaker identification.


Call for Papers: 

The 15th IAFL conference will be a forum for the discussion of all aspects of
forensic linguistics and language and law. We welcome proposals for individual
papers, posters and panels on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Legal discourse:
(Language of the law, The history of legal languages; Legal genres; Critical
approaches to legal languages.) 

Language and the legal process: 
(Courtroom, police and prison discourse; Investigative interviewing; Power and
the law; Interviews with vulnerable; Language and disadvantage; Interpreting
and translating in legal contexts; Bilingual courtrooms; Legal interpreting &
translation.) 

Investigative linguistics and language evidence:
(Authorship analysis; Forensic stylistics; Speaker identification; Plagiarism;
Trademark disputes; Consumer product warnings; Deception and fraud.)

Language and cybercrime: 
(Online identities and communication; Online sexual grooming; Online language
crimes (e.g.: hate crime, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, online deception and
fraud.))

Education and training: 
(Language education for law professionals; School-based program for language
awareness; Readability/comprehensibility of legal documents.)

Forensic phonetics and speaker identification:
(Transcription and translation of covert recordings; Forensic voice
comparison.) 
 
Submission Guidelines: 

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Individual papers: 
Abstracts for regular papers by one or more authors should be up to 250 words
long (excluding references) and should be submitted via EasyChair.
Presentations will be 20 minutes, with a further 10 minutes allowed for
questions.

Poster presentation:
Proposals for posters should be up to 250 words long and should be submitted
via EasyChair. Posters should be of A0 size (841mm x 1189mm) in portrait
orientation. Posters may be accepted for research projects (e.g. student
dissertations) where no data has yet been collected.

Panels: 
Outlines for panels should be no more than 500 words long and should be
submitted via EasyChair. The outline should include an indication of
participants and a brief description of their contribution. The panels will be
scheduled for 2-hour blocks, with a maximum of two linked sessions. 

All abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee and the decision
for the first call for papers will be emailed to the participants by 30 April
2021. 

Abstract submission deadlines: 15 March 2021
Decisions released: 30 April 2021

Further details are available on Easychair:
https://easychair.org/cfp/IAFL2021?draft=1




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