Forensic Linguistics
In its broadest sense, “forensic linguistics” covers all areas where law and language intersect:
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Legislation; comprehensibility of legal documents; analysis and interpretation of legal texts; legal genres; history of legal languages; legal discourse; multilingual matters in legal contexts; discourse analysis of legal resources; language and disadvantage before the law; language minorities and the legal system; language rights; power and the law; intercultural matters and mediation in legal contexts.
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Interviews with vulnerable witnesses; communicative challenges of vulnerable witnesses; police interviews; investigative interviewing; language testing of asylum seekers; bilingual courtrooms and second-language issues; courtroom interpreting; courtroom interaction; courtroom translating; courtroom language; police language; prison language; language addressed to judge and jury in common and civil law courtrooms.
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Authorship analysis and attribution; plagiarism; speaker identification and voice comparison; compiling corpora (statements, confessions, suicide notes); computational author identification or profiling; consumer product warnings; language as evidence in civil cases (trademark, contract disputes, defamation, product liability, deceptive trade practices, copyright infringement); dialectology and sociolinguistics; semantics; pragmatics and speech act analysis.
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Practice and ethics of expert testimony; presentation of linguistic evidence; linguists as expert witnesses; teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law; language education for law professionals.
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The IAFLL is seeking nominations from people who wish to serve on the new Executive Committee (EC), which will begin at the close of the General Business Meeting on Thursday, 6th July, 2023. For more details and to register your interest in running:
https://www.iafl.org/2023/01/03/iafll-executive-committee-2023-2025-elections/Three travel awards are available for postgraduate students to present a paper at the 16th Biennial IAFLL Conference in Manila, Philippines. Details and how to apply are here ⬇️
https://www.iafl.org/2023/01/03/student-travel-awards-16th-biennial-conference-of-the-international-association-for-forensic-and-legal-linguistics/Registration Deadline Final Announcement: Today is your last chance to register for our upcoming event. More information and registration can be found at https://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/.
