33.3848, FYI: Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3848. Tue Dec 13 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3848, FYI: Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

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Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:51:51
From: Dr. I.M. Nick [mavi.yaz at web.de]
Subject: Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

 
As evidence-gatherers for the court, forensic linguists are routinely expected
to provide reliable and verifiable information, unbiased by personal opinion
or expectation. The assumption underlying this goal is that forensic linguists
must remain entirely neutral to serve the arbiters of justice. Increasingly,
this presumption has come under fire, however. Aside from the fact that it is
doubtful whether any human endeavor can be completely devoid of personal
agenda, bias, and/or emotion, there is the very real question of whether
dispassionate science is always in the best interests of social justice. As
history has shown, the stoic disregard for the potential real-world impact of
research may do real and lasting harm to the very communities science is
charged with serving.  This call is for book chapter proposals which address
the ethical challenges involved in the objective collection, examination, and
application of linguistic evidence for forensic purposes (e.g., police
investigations; suspect interrogations; witness questioning; asylum-seeker
applications; court transcription, interpretation, and/or translation;
drafting, interpreting, and applying legislation, etc.).  Proposals must
examine ethical issues related to people who have been historically
marginalized (e.g., the differently abled, ethnoracial minorities, members of
the LGBTQ++ community, immigrants and asylum-seekers, indigenous peoples,
etc.) and have routinely been disadvantaged within the world’s legal systems. 
  
For consideration, book proposal submissions must the include the following
elements as a PDF email attachment: 1.) A detailed abstract (max. 1,000
words); 2.) a working title; 3.) a set of keywords (max. 7); 4.) a preliminary
list of references (max. 20); 5.) a brief biographical sketch of the
contributing authors (max 200 words per author); 6.) the institutional
affiliation and email address of each contributing author.  In the case of
multi-authored proposals, please be sure to designate a primary contact for
correspondence.  The submission address for proposals is
(ethicsandfl at gmail.com).  The deadline for proposal submissions is January 15,
2023.  For organizational purposes, please be sure to include the codeword
“ETHICS” in the content line of your email.  Authors will be notified about
acceptance on or about February 1, 2023.  Authors whose proposals are accepted
will be expected to submit a first complete draft of their chapters (max.
6,000 words, excluding references, an abstract, and graphics) by May 2023.
Please direct any questions to the following address: ethicsandfl at gmail.com.  

We look forward to receiving your submission! 
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Forensic Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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