Third Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics
The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Susan Blackwell, doctor (UK)
Olga Burukina, professor (Russia)
Deborah Cao, professor (Australia)
Hannes Kniffka, professor (Germany)
Artur Kubacki,doctor (Poland)
Diana Yankova, professor (Bulgaria)
The conference will be held over 3 days, from 3rd to 5th July 2008 in Poznan, Poland. We invite papers on the following topics:
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL
(i)(comparative) forensic linguistics
(ii)forensic phonetics
(iii) forensic authorship attribution
(iv) forensic stylistic
(v) linguists as expert witnesses
(vi) linguistic features of forgeries and counterfeits of public documents
LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING
(i)legal translation;
(ii)court interpreting;
(iii) teaching legal translation and court interpreting
(iv) certified translators and interpreters in legal proceedings
(v) mistranslation and misinterpreting in legal context
LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE
(i) history of legal language
(ii) legal terminology
(iii) legal genres
(iv) EU legal language
(v) analysis of legal discourse
(vi) structure and semantics of statutes and other legal instruments;
(vii) development of legal languages
(viii) legal and linguistic interpretation of texts formulated in legal language
(ix) teaching legal language
(x) speech style in the courtroom
(xi) comprehensibility of legal instruments
(xii) Plain English Campaign
(xiii) linguistic aspects of cross-examination
(xiv) technicality in legal language
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
(i)IT for lawyers
(ii) IT for linguists
(iii) IT for interpreters and translators
(iv) computational linguistics
(v) IT tools for detecting plagiarism
(vi) Machine Translation
(vii) Translation Memory
(viii) Speech recognition tools
(ix) Corpora
(x) impact of new technologies on forensic linguistics
HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
(i) history of legal systems
(ii) comparative study of legal systems
(iii) common law versus civil law countries
LAWS ON LANGUAGE
(i) language rights
(ii) linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights
(iii) language and disadvantage before the law
This list is not exhaustive. We also encourage you to submit session proposals including the following topics:
(i) translation of literature and poetry,
(ii) LSP translation,
(iii) Interpreting,
(iv) Audiovisual translation
(v) Untranslatability.
Session proposals and any questions should be submitted to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com
Presentation slots should not exceed 30 minutes (20 minutes long presentation plus 10 minutes for questions). Papers from the conference will be published.
Important dates:
Abstracts
Early abstract submission: 31 March 2008
Early abstract acceptance notification: 15 April
Second abstract submission: 30 April
Second abstract acceptance notification: 15 May
Late abstract submission: 20 May
Late abstract acceptance notification: 10 June
Submission of full papers: 31 July 2008 to the following address legilinguistics@gmail.com
Abstracts should be submitted by the end of March 2008 to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com
Conference fee:
Conference fee:
Early payment by 20 April: €150.
Payment from 21 April to 20 May € 175.
Payment after 21 May or on arrival €200.
The conference fee includes the cost of the conference gala dinner, 2 lunches, tea breaks and publication of papers.
We kindly request you to pay the fee into the following account:
Bank Account Details:
Adam Mickiewicz University
BZ WBK
IBAN: PL 77 1090 1362 0000 0000 3601 7903
Swift: WBK PPLPP
For: Forensic Linguistics Conference
Note: It is vital that you place on your money transfer the following name: Forensic Linguistics Conference.
LANGUAGES: Polish, English, German, Russian and French.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Bańczerowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Feliks Zedler, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Aleksandra Matulewska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
(i) Aleksandra Matulewska
(ii) Karolina Kaczmarek
(iii) Marcin Michalski
(iv) Karolina Gortych
(v) Joanna Grzybek
(vi) Paulina Nowak-Korcz
(vii) Joanna Nowak
(viii) Paweł Korcz