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From: Translation Studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of I.
M. Laversuch Nick
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 1:52 PM
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Subject: [TRANSLATIO] 2016 Conference on Language, Law, and Crime
Dear Colleagues,
The Fourth Annual Roundtable on Forensic Linguistics and Phonetics will be
held from the 26th to the 28th of August 2016 in Mainz, Germany. The
Roundtable is sponsored by the Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics
(GSFL). The purpose of this conference is to provide FL/FP researchers,
educators, and practitioners the opportunity to share their work in an
interdisciplimary, supportive, and respectiful scholarly environment.
Paper and poster submissions are cordially welcome on any area of FL/FP.
Examples of possible presentation topics include the following:
LANGUAGE AND THE LAW ( courtroom interpreting and translating;
multilingualism and the legal system; legal discourse and legal texts;
interviewing and interrogation practices; language minorities and the
law;ear witnesses and lineups; deception detection);
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS (speaker identification; authorship identification,
verification, and attribution; plagiarism detection; linguistic profiling;
corpus analysis of forensic texts such as courtroom transcripts, police
protocols, suicide letters, confessions, ransom notes, threatening letters,
etc.);
FORENSIC PHONETICS (speaker discrimination; perceptual speaker
identification; foreign/second language speaker identification; formant
measurement, dynamics, and pattern identification; automated speaker
recognition; intra- and interspeaker variation);
FL/FP AND EDUCATION (developing FL/FP programs and curricula; FL/FP
instructional materials; interdisciplinary challenges and promises; teaching
ethical standards; establishing scientific codes of practice);
CRIME, PSYCHOLOGY, AND LANGUAGE (victims' statements; interviewing crime
victims; language, therapy, and victim recovery; psychologists as experts in
the courtroom; the language of offenders; therapy, language, and
rehabilitation; language an manipulation; language and trauma)
To encourage continuing interest in FL/FP, a special Student Day will be
held for undergraduates and graduates who are interested in researching and
working within this field. All interested participants are requested to
submit a 250 word abstract by June 10, 2016 via the GSFL website
<http://www.gsfl.info/roundtable--16.html> If you have any questions about
the Roundtable or the GSFL, please do not hesitate to contact, Dr. I. M.
Nick <[log in to unmask])
We hope to see you there!
The 2016GSFL Organizational Team
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