LINGUIST List 14.2438

Mon Sep 15 2003

Calls: Forensic Linguistics/Lyon, France

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

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1. valwagnerfr, International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law

International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law 
Date: 07-JUL-04 - 12-JUL-04
Location: LYON, France
Contact: ANNE WAGNER
Contact Email: valwagnerfryahoo.com 

Linguistic Sub-field: Forensic Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2004

Meeting Description:
The theme of the international conference is Signs of the World:
Interculturality and Globalization, and while papers directed toward
that very broad topic are welcome, in the spirit of Bobbie Kevelson we
are of course open to all varieties of legal semiotics.

VERY IMPORTANT MODIFICATION: 

NEW CHAIR PERSON AND CONTACT PERSON: ANNE WAGNER
Anne WAGNER, Ma�tre de Conf�rences LARJ (Droit) et CERCLE, �quipe
VolTer (Vocabulaire, Lexique et Terminologie): Universit� du Littoral
- C�te d'Opale (FRANCE) Editorial Board Member and French Book Review
Editor for : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
(http://www.wkap.nl) -- Advisory/coordinating Committee Member of the
International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law CLARITY
REPRESENTATIVE : A movement to simplify legal language (
http://www.clarity-international.net)

ALL ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT DIRECTLY TO HER: deadline for submitting
abstracts: APRIL 2004

Title and a short description of 3 up to 4 lines should be sent before
the END OF FEBRUARY.

INFORMATION ABOUT ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION WILL BE SENT AFTER
APRIL.

The theme of the international conference is Signs of the World:
Interculturality and Globalization, and while papers directed toward
that very broad topic are welcome, in the spirit of Bobbie Kevelson we
are of course open to all varieties of legal semiotics.

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

SIGNS OF THE WORLD: Interculturality and globalisation

Signs are conceived and circulate in a world whose recent evolution
has brought about a change in the nature of geopolitical and
intercultural relations. The evolution in the means of exchange, in
the representations of the world and the strategies devised by
political and institutional actors lead semioticians to appraise and
update their concepts and analysis tools. The 8th IASS congress will
have interculturality and globalisation as themes. It will allow for
clarification of the specific contributions of semiotics to world
comprehension and to political, economic, cultural, aesthetic and
anthropological debate. Through their involvement in critical
reflection on globalisation, semioticians contribute to the process of
clarifying issues arising from this reflection and have a role to play
in this contemporary debate: how world cultures can be made more
intellible to each other within the framework of their own
differences. While papers directed toward that very broad topic are
welcome, in the spirit of Bobbie Kevelson we are of course open to all
varieties of legal semiotics.

1. Theoretical semiotics and epistemology
2. Differences and identities: discrimination and negotiation
3. Communication: a system of exchange and production
4. Semiotics and cultural practices
5. Semiotics and aesthetic practices
6. Semiotics of the globalisation of space and time
7. Critical discourse on the political economy of the sign