International Association of Forensic Linguists 
7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law 
1st ~ 4th July 2005
University of Washington
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The following information comes from: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference/ 

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Keynote Speakers

• Professor John Gibbons (speaker bio)
  Hong Kong Baptist University / University of Sydney
  President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
  Pressure Points: How witnesses come to agree with what they do not believe (abstract)

• Detective Inspector Kerry Marlow (speaker bio)
  Detective Inspector, South Wales Police, UK. Force Interview Adviser, ACPO* Regional Interview Co-ordinator for Wales, ACPO Investigative Interview Strategy Lead 
  (*Association of Chief Police Officers)
  The Development of Investigative Interviewing: A new phenomenon in British policing (abstract)

Malcolm Coulthard Postgraduate Scholarship

The first Malcolm Coulthard Postgraduate Scholarship has been awarded to Mr Clive Forrester from the University of the West Indies, Mona.

Special Thematic Symposia

The conference will include three special symposia, on the following topics:

Studies in Forensic Linguistics for Pre-Law Students
(Coordinator: William G. Eggington)

Plain Language and Transparent Legal System for Lay People
(Coordinator: Mami Hiraike Okawara)

Language analysis in Asylum Cases: Defining a New Branch of Forensic Linguistics
(Coordinator: Maaike Verrips)

Outlines and abstracts are available by clicking the "Thematic Symposia"

Topics and Abstracts

Individual papers will deal with all aspects of forensic linguistics/language and law, including:

• courtroom discourse
• police interviews
• courtroom interpreting and translating 
• the readability/comprehensibility of legal documents 
• the analysis/interpretation of legal texts
• the comprehensibility of the police caution issued to suspects 
• interviews with children in the legal system 
• the communicative challenges of ‘vulnerable’ witnesses
• the use of linguistic evidence in court 
• authorship/speaker identification 
• the teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law 

Abstracts are available by clicking the link: "Abstracts".

Registration: 

• Registration fees and accommodation 
• Conference dinner
• Registration form (.rtf) 

Contact: 

Dr Janet Cotterill
Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University
PO Box 94 Cardiff 
CF10 3XB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)2920 876393
Fax: +44 (0)2920 874242
Email: cotterillj@cardiff.ac.uk