IAFLL 16: 16th Biennial Conference of the IAFLL (International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics) July 4-6, 2023 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iafll16 |
Submission deadline | November 15, 2022 |
The 16th Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) will be hosted by the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the Philippines. With the theme, ‘Forensic Linguistics: Strengthening Foundations, Rethinking Paradigms, and Navigating New Horizons’, IAFLL 2016 aims to engage the participants in the discussion on the groundwork, current trends and issues, and prospects in Forensic Linguistics, and will be held onsite from July 4-6, 2023.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We welcome proposals for individual papers 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 policy and linguistic rights
- Offensive language and hate speech
- The linguist as expert witness
- Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics:
- Forensic phonetics and speaker identification
- Forensic stylistics
- Linguistic determination of nationality
- Authorship analysis
- Plagiarism detection and analysis
- Trademark disputes
- Consumer product warnings
- Deception and fraud
- Other Related Sub-Themes:
- Computational Forensic Linguistics
- Cybercrime
- Online identities and interactive multimodal communication
- Multimodal approaches to forensic linguistics
- Intercultural mediation
- Comparative law
- Forensic communication
- Ethics and deontology in Forensic Linguistics
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, including references, should be sent via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iafll16 by February 15, 2023. Please note that there is no need to upload a full paper.
Host
University of Santo Tomas Department of English
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to iafll16.ab@ust.edu.ph