15.3252, Calls: Forensic Ling/UK; Cognitive Sci/Corpus Ling/Poland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3252. Fri Nov 19 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 15.3252, Calls: Forensic Ling/UK; Cognitive Sci/Corpus Ling/Poland                                                                                                                                                      

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1)
Date: 17-Nov-2004
From: Janet Cotterill < cotterillj at cardiff.ac.uk >
Subject: International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference 

2)
Date: 17-Nov-2004
From: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk < blt at uni.lodz.pl >
Subject: Cognitive Corpus Linguistics Workshop 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:42:13
From: Janet Cotterill < cotterillj at cardiff.ac.uk >
Subject: International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference 

Full Title: International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference 
Short Title: IAFL 7 

Date: 01-Jul-2005 - 04-Jul-2005
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Janet Cotterill
Meeting Email: cotterillj at cardiff.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2004 

Meeting Description:

Second Call for Papers

Dates: July 1 ~ July 4 2005
Location: Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Contact: Dr Janet Cotterill
Email: cotterillj at cardiff.ac.uk

Cardiff University will host the 7th International Association of Forensic
Linguistics (IAFL) conference. The meeting is a 4-day conference on
forensic linguistics/language and law, to be held from the 1st to the 4th
of July 2005.

Papers are invited will deal with all aspects of forensic
linguistics/language and law, in both civil and criminal contexts,
including, but not limited to the following:

- courtroom language
- police interviews
- courtroom interpreting and translating 
- the readability/comprehensibility of legal documents 
- the analysis/interpretation of legal texts/statutes
- the comprehensibility of the police caution issued to suspects 
- interviews with children in the legal system 
- the communicative challenges of 'vulnerable' witnesses
- the use of linguistic evidence in court 
- authorship/speaker identification 
- the teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law

The principal keynote speaker at IAFL 7 will be Professor John Gibbons,
from Hong Kong Baptist University. 

INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS

Abstracts should be 250-300 words long and should be submitted by email to:

iaflabstracts at cardiff.ac.uk
(Please use this address for abstracts only)

Abstracts should contain: 

- Title of the presentation
- Name(s) of the author(s)
- Affiliation of the author(s)
- Both e-mail and postal addresses 
- Any special audio-visual/IT requirements 
(OHPs and Powerpoint will be available as standard, but please signal any
requirements for video/DVD etc.)

Call deadline: December 31, 2004

Presentation slots will be 30 minutes long, including questions.

PROPOSALS FOR THEMATIC SYMPOSIA

As well as individual abstracts, groups of speakers may submit a set of
abstracts for a themed panel on any relevant topic. Such groups will
normally take up a whole session of either 90 mins or 120 mins, and group
members may apportion their time within that as they wish.  All sessions
should allow time for questions and discussion. All the abstracts for such
sessions will be considered together, as a group, and a coordinator for the
whole session should be nominated. Abstracts for such themed sessions
should be submitted together with the same format as specified for
individual abstracts.

CONFERENCE BURSARY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS: 

THE MALCOLM COULTHARD SCHOLARSHIP

The Cardiff conference will mark the inaugural year of the Malcolm
Coulthard Scholarship, a bursary set up in honour of Professor Malcolm
Coulthard, the Founding President of the International Association of
Forensic Linguists. The scholarship acknowledges Professor Coulthard's
major contribution to the establishment and promotion of the field.

The bursary is available to postgraduate students who are intending to
present a paper at the conference, and provides a waiver of conference
registration and accommodation fees, as well as reasonable travel costs, up
to a maximum of £750 (US$1200).

Students who are interested in applying for the bursary should indicate
this clearly when submitting their abstracts, and should also include a
statement of 250-400 words, indicating why they should be considered for
the award.

FURTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Further details about the conference, including registration forms, travel
information, programmes and abstracts will be posted on the conference
website (currently under construction): 

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:42:18
From: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk < blt at uni.lodz.pl >
Subject: Cognitive Corpus Linguistics Workshop 

Full Title: Cognitive Corpus Linguistics Workshop 

Date: 09-Apr-2005 - 09-Apr-2005
Location: Lodz, Poland 
Contact Person: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Meeting Email: blt at uni.lodz.pl
Web Site: http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

Session on issues in cognitive approaches to language and computational
linguistics, with a special reference to linguistic and multimodal corpora. 

PALC 2005: Practical Applications in Language and Computers
7-9 April 2005, University of Lodz, Poland

Cognitive Corpus Linguistics Workshop
First circular and call for papers

Convenor: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Lodz)
The 'Cognitive Corpus Linguistics' workshop is organized within the 5th
international conference on Practical Applications in Language and
Computers (PALC 2005) (see separate circular and call for papers). We
welcome submissions in a broad range of issues in cognitive approaches to
language and  computational linguistics, with a special reference to
linguistic and multimodal corpora.  We hope that the topics listed below,
of interdisciplinary character, will stimulate exchange, thoughts, ideas,
and methodology between the disciplines.

The topics include (but are not restricted to):
-	construction of natural language corpus-based semantic representations
-	corpora and prototypical meanings
-	image-schematic representations
-	discovering categories in corpus data
-	polysemy and corpus methodology
-	figurative meanings (analysis and acquisition) and corpora
-	emotion concepts and (multimodal) corpus data
-	learning/constructing lexical meanings from corpora
-	learning of constructions from corpora
-	phraseology
-	semantic prosody 
-	knowledge and meaning representation in multimodal discourse
-	mental representation and multimodal corpora
-	the semantic web, ontologies, ICMs
-	context and the semantics-pragmatics interface