31.542, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Discourse Analysis, Forensic Ling/South Africa

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Subject: 31.542, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Discourse Analysis, Forensic Ling/South Africa

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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:36:12
From: Karien van den Berg [karien.hattingh at nwu.ac.za]
Subject: 2nd Southern African Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists

 
Full Title: 2nd Southern African Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists 
Short Title: 2nd Southern African IAFL 

Date: 02-Apr-2020 - 03-Apr-2020
Location: North-West province, South Africa 
Contact Person: Terrence Carney
Meeting Email: Carnetr at unisa.ac.za
Web Site: https://www.iafl.org/2020/01/06/2nd-southern-african-regional-conference-of-the-iafl/ 

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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

2nd Southern African Regional Conference of the International Association of
Forensic Linguists

The International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) is an organization
that consists primarily of linguists whose work involves them in the law.
Narrowly defined, this means linguistic evidence in court (authorship
attribution, disputed confessions, etc.), but the association also aims to
bring together those working on all aspects of language and the law (legal
language, language in the legal process, and language as evidence).

The purpose of the IAFL is to improve the administration of the legal systems
throughout the world by means of a better understanding of the interaction
between language and the law. More specifically, the Association aims to
promote:

- Study of the language of the law, including the language of legal documents
and of the courts, the police, and prisons
- The use of linguistic evidence (phonological, morpho-syntactic,
discourse-pragmatic) in the analysis of authorship and plagiarism, speaker
identification and voice comparison, confessions, linguistic profiling,
suicide notes, consumer product warnings
- The use of language as evidence in civil cases (trademark, contract
disputes, defamation, product liability, deceptive trade practices, copyright
infringement)
- The alleviation of language-based inequality and disadvantage in the legal
system
- The interchange of ideas and information between the legal and linguistic
communities
- Research into the practice, improvement, and ethics of expert testimony and
the presentation of linguistic evidence, as well as legal interpreting and
translation
- Better public understanding of the interaction between language and the law
 
Date: 2 to 3 April 2020
Location: Parys, South Africa


Call for Papers:
 
Date: 2 to 3 April 2020
Location: Parys, South Africa
 
Abstracts are invited for individual papers that engage with the conference
theme, “Language and law in Africa: exploring linguistic challenges in legal
practice”. Proposed papers may explore the theme from the following
perspectives:
 
Language and the legal process:
- courtroom, police and prison discourse
- investigative interviewing
- law officers and power relations
- comprehensibility of legal documents
- interviews with vulnerable witnesses in the legal system

Linguistic evidence:
- transcriptions
- stylistics
- phonetics and speaker identification
- linguistic determination of nationality
- authorship analysis
- trademark disputes
- consumer product warnings

Interpretingand translating in legal contexts:
- multilingual matters in legal contexts

The language of the law:
- language policy and language rights
- defamation and hate speech
 
The duration of papers are 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion. Kindly send abstracts of no more than 200 words, along with
personal details, to Dr. Terrence Carney (carnetr at unisa.ac.za).




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