34.2317, Confs: Language as a Social Practice: Constructing (A)symmetries in Legal Discourse

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Subject: 34.2317, Confs: Language as a Social Practice: Constructing (A)symmetries in Legal Discourse

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Date: 26-Jul-2023
From: Elisabeth Reber [bael at uni-bonn.de]
Subject: Language as a Social Practice: Constructing (A)symmetries in Legal Discourse 


Language as a Social Practice: Constructing (A)symmetries in Legal
Discourse

Date: 07-Sep-2023 - 08-Sep-2023
Location: Bonn, Germany
Contact: Elisabeth Reber
Contact Email: bael at uni-bonn.de
Meeting URL: https://www.applied-linguistics.uni-bonn.de/en/news-and-e
vents/workshops/language-as-a-social-practice-constructing-a-symmetrie
s-in-legal-discourse

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

Meeting Description:

Research on language and the law has focused on the social
organization of language use (see Conley et al. 2019), specifically;
1) how participants construct social actions and engage in sequences
of actions at the courtroom (e.g., Atkinson & Drew 1979, Seuren 2019).
2) how socio-cultural norms frame lexical choices and thus put
constraints on the semantic-pragmatic implications of the law (e.g.,
Danet 1980, Pasa & Morra 2018). 3) how social factors (e.g. gender,
social class) may correlate with linguistic and interactional
practices by participants in legal settings and how linguistic and
interactional practices may serve to construct social relations (e.g.,
O’Barr & Atkins 1980, Jacobi & Schweers 2017). More recently, there
has been a heightened interest in 4) how to improve the
intelligibility of legal texts for lay people and socially diverse
target groups (Schmallenbach & Vogel 2022).
Against the backdrop of this prior research, this workshop aims to
take stock of current research which studies language use in legal
settings as a social practice, specifically exploring how asymmetries
may be constructed and displayed through linguistic, interactional,
and / or discursive resources and across “participation frameworks”
(Goffman 1979) at the micro level and how these asymmetries on the
micro level might provide us with insights about the macro level
(Conley at al. 2019: 9; cf. also Reber 2021). Bringing together
scholars with a background in linguistics and law, the workshop seeks
to showcase a diverse perspective on language, law and society, and
explore the way forward of the interdisciplinary study of legal
discourse at Bonn and beyond.

References
Atkinson, J.M. & Drew, P. (1979). Order in Court: The Organisation of
Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings. London: Macmillan.

Conley, J. O'Barr, W. M. & Conley Riner, R. (2019). Just Words: Law,
Language, and Power. 3rd ed. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Danet, D. (1980). “Baby" or "fetus"? Language and the construction of
reality in a manslaughter trial. Semiotica, 32, 187–219.

Goffman, E. (1979). Footing. Semiotica, 5(1-2), 1–29.

Jacobi, T. & Schweers, D. (2017). Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of
Gender, Ideology, and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments.
Virginia Law Review, 103(7), 1379–1496

O’Barr, W. & Atkins, B. K. (1980). “Women’s language” or “powerless
language”? In S. McConnell-Ginet, R. Borker & N. Furman (Eds.), Women
in Language and Society (pp. 93–109). New York: Praeger.

Pasa, B. & Morra, L. (2018). Implicit legal norms. In J. Visconti
(Ed.), Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere (pp. 141–168).
Berlin/New York: de Gryuter Mouton.

Reber, E. (2021). Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring
Recent Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schmallenbach, J & Vogel, F. (2022). The Effort for More
Understandable Laws in and at the German Federal Ministry of Justice
and Consumer Protection. Results from a Legal Linguistic Evaluation
Project. International Journal of Language and Law, 11, 18–35.

Seuren, L. M. (2019). Questioning in Court: The construction of direct
examinations. Discourse Studies, 21(3), 340–357.

Program:

Program at: https://www.applied-linguistics.uni-bonn.de/en/news-and-ev
ents/workshops/language-as-a-social-practice-constructing-a-symmetries
-in-legal-discourse

Attendance is free! Just make the registration at:
https://forms.gle/CAZq6vdsFwsChQ387



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