Call for Papers
5th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics (IAFLL).
Hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 24th-27th June 2024
Theme: Applying Linguistics, Improving Justice.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Dr Emily Chiang, Aston University
Professor Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester
We welcome proposals for individual papers and poster presentations dealing with forensic linguistics/language and the law including, but not limited to:
Legal language: Legal genres; Critical approaches to legal languages; Language education for law professionals; Multilingualism & the law; The comprehensibility of legal documents; The history of legal languages
Spoken interaction in legal contexts: Courtroom, police and prison discourse; Investigative interviewing; Interpreting & translation in legal contexts; Vulnerable people & the legal system; Language minorities and the legal system
Law on language: Language & Human Rights; Language policy and linguistic rights; Language crimes
Linguistic evidence and investigative linguistics: Forensic phonetics and speaker identification; Forensic stylistics; Authorship analysis; Determining meaning in forensic contexts; Plagiarism detection and analysis; Trademark disputes; Consumer product warnings; Deception and fraud
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including references, should be sent via https://easychair.org/cfp/IAFLL2024 by 17th December, 2023.
For enquiries please contact iafll2024@aston.ac.uk