
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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Following Monday's announcement, we have updated our website with more details of the bursary winners: https://www.iafl.org/2022/06/07/iafll-porto-2022-student-bursary-winners/
Congratulations to the five recipients of the bursaries for the 4th European Conference of the @_IAFLL in Porto. We look forward to seeing you all in July!
Oluwole Sanni
Dakota Wing
Andriana Korasidi
Natalie Jones
Cheima BoCongratulations to the five recipients of the bursaries for the 4th European Conference of the @_IAFLL in Porto. We look forward to seeing you all in July!
Oluwole Sanni
Dakota Wing
Andriana Korasidi
Natalie Jones
Cheima Bo⚠️Update⚠️Virtual Expert Witness Training in Courtroom Skills has a NEW date: 3-4 October 9.30am-12.45pm UK time. The session aims to provide expert witnesses with core skills to effectively present opinion-based evidence in court under cross-examination. https://www.iafl.org/training/