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Language of Law: Pulling Together Different Strands


Recent Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2009

Call for Papers

The Law Faculty of the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (University of Naples 2) - Department of Legal Sciences - English Language Chair - is hosting its first international workshop to bring together linguists, legal scholars and practitioners, to explore the issues of language in the law in English and other European and non-European languages, cultures and systems. We therefore invite colleagues to submit papers on theoretical and applied perspectives of language in a variety of areas of law (civil, criminal, administrative, European/international), in academic, professional and institutional contexts. Papers may address aspects of language and law, also from an interdisciplinary perspective, on any of the following broad theme areas:
- legal discourse and genre, including ethnographic or corpus-based analyses of legal discourse in the media
- power relations and ideology in the law
- cross-cultural legal communication
- pedagogy of legal language (LSP, ESP, EAP)
- legal translation and interpreting
- forensic linguistics
- plain language and the law
- other

For the plenary lecture the following keynote speaker has been invited:
Prof. Vijay K. Bhatia
Visiting Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
President, Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association
Principal Investigator of RGC Cerg Project on International Arbitration
Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study

Presentation: Guidelines
Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 5-10 minutes each for discussion at the end of the part-session.

Working Language: English

Abstract Submission
Contributors are invited to send an anonymous abstract in MS Word (12pt) of not more than 300 words (excluding references) by no later than 15st December 2009 to the following address: languageoflaw@unina2.it

Scientific Committee:
Prof. Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Giuliana Garzone (Political Science Faculty, University of Milan)
Prof. Rita Salvi (Economics Faculty, University of Rome La Sapienza)
Ass. Prof. Girolamo Tessuto (Law Faculty, University of Naples 2)
Prof. Christopher Williams (Law Faculty, University of Foggia)

Organising Committee:
Girolamo Tessuto, Associate Professor of English Language and Translation, Law Faculty (SUN)
Dott. Stephen John Spedding, Principal English Language Assistant - Law Faculty (SUN)
Dott.ssa Maria Luigia Arricale, English Language Collaborator - Law Faculty (SUN)
Dott. Gennaro Russo, English Language Collaborator - Law Faculty (SUN)

Details of Workshop Programme, including registration, list of participants, book of abstracts, map, accomodation, travel/tourist information, excursion, will be announced from February 2010.