Department of English Language at the University of Lodz will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between scholars from the former Eastern Bloc countries and elsewhere in Europe and the world.
The conference will be held over 3 days, from 12th to 14th September 2005 at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We invite papers discussing the role and shape of language in legal and forensic settings. The topics include:
- analysis of legal discourse,
- structure and semantics of statutes and legal instruments,
- legal terminology,
- legal translation,
- speech style in the courtroom,
- social organisation of conversation in legal settings,
- structure of cross-examination,
- sociopragmatic aspects of interpreting in court,
- comprehensibility of legal instruments,
- language and disadvantage before the law,
- linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights,
- forensic linguistics (particularly forensic authorship attribution
and forensic phonetics),
- trade name and domain name disputes.
This list is not exhaustive.
Selected papers from the conference will be published by Peter Lang GmbH in a volume of the Lodz Studies in Language series.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Susan Blackwell, The University of Birmingham, UK
Ronald R. Butters, Duke University, USA
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz
Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, USA
Maria Teresa Turell, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Marek Zirk-Sadowski, University of Lodz
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey, UK
Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham and Aston University, UK
Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo, Italy
Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Susan Sarcevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, USA
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Krzysztof Kredens
Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Department of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz
Poland
tel: (#48) 42 6655220
fax: (#48) 42 6655221
email: linglex@uni.lodz.pl
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