[Corpora-List] 3rd European Conference of the IAFL: Deadline Extension

[Rui Sousa-Silva]

****Apologies for cross postings****


Dear all,

To accommodate various requests, we have decided to extend the deadline for abstract submissions to the 3rd European Conference of the IAFL. The new deadline is 30 April 2012. Please find the new call below. 

We look forward to seeing you all in Porto in October!

Rui



***SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS***

3rd European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists on the theme of 
Forensic Linguistics: Bridging the Gap(s) between Language and the Law


The Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal) will host the 3rd European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists on the theme of Forensic Linguistics: Bridging the Gap(s) between Language and the Law. The conference, which is organised jointly by the two Faculties, aims to bridge the gap(s) between language and the law by sharing the latest research in the field of forensic linguistics/language and the law, and will be held from 15 to 18 October 2012.

Call deadline: 30 April 2012.

We invite abstract submissions for PAPERS and POSTERS dealing with forensic linguistics / language and the law including, but not limited to:

Legal Languages
The history of legal languages
The role of literacy in legal languages
Legal genres
Critical approaches to legal languages
Language education for law professionals
Legal Discourse
Courtroom, police and prison discourse
Investigative interviewing
Multilingual matters in legal contexts
Power and the law
The comprehensibility of legal documents
Interviews with vulnerable witnesses in the legal system
Language minorities and the legal system
Linguistic disadvantage before the law
Courtroom interpreting and translation
Human rights matters
Law on language
Language rights
Offensive language
The linguist as expert witness
Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics
Forensic phonetics and speaker identification
Forensic stylistics
Linguistic determination of nationality
Authorship analysis
Plagiarism
Trademark disputes
Consumer product warnings
Deception and fraud
Other Related Sub-Themes
Computational Forensic Linguistics
Intercultural mediation
Comparative law
Multimodal approaches to forensic linguistics
 
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Individual papers are invited for presentations of 20 minutes, with a further 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including references, should be sent via the conference website by 30 April 2012. Please do not include your name, affiliation and email address in the abstract itself. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 7 May 2012.
POSTERS: Proposals for posters of no more than 300 words, including references, should be sent via the conference website by 30 April 2012. Posters should be of A0 size (841mm x 1189mm) in portrait orientation. Unsuccessful individual paper proposals may be invited for presentation alternatively as a poster, but original proposals for posters will be given priority. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 7 May 2012.
Official language: The official language of the 3rd European Conference of the IAFL on Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law is English, with the exception of the special track on Portuguese Forensic Linguistics (in Portuguese).

COLLOQUIA:

Special session on Forensic Linguistics in Portuguese-speaking countries (Official language: Portuguese).
Special session to discuss Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpreting and translation in criminal proceedings.
 
Scientific committee: Jordi Cicres, Virgínia Colares, Janet Cotterill, Malcolm Coulthard, Diana Eades, Ed Finegan, Tim Grant, Kate Haworth, Krzysztof  Kredens, Nicci MacLeod, Belinda Maia, Luís Sarmento, Larry Solan

Keynote Speakers: Virgínia Colares, Malcolm Coulthard and Edward Finegan. 
Organized by: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law

Organising Committee: Belinda Maia (co-organiser), Rui Sousa-Silva (co-organiser), Rita Faria (co-organiser), Gustavo Laboreiro, Ana Paula Lopes, Fátima Silva, Jorge Teixeira

Contact:

forensic.linguistics at letras.​up.pt
www.linguisticaforense.net

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