Full Title: GSFL Roundtable and Conference
Short Title: GSFL 2024

Date: 15-Nov-2024 - 17-Nov-2024
Location: online/remote CET time zone, Germany
Contact Person: Iman Nick
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics
Language Family(ies): Germanic

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

The purpose of the ONLINE GSFL Roundtable is to provide FL/FP researchers, educators, and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss their work within an interdisciplinary, supportive, and respectful scholarly environment. Invited topics for paper and poster abstracts include but are not limited to the following four areas:

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS authorship analysis; text comparison; plagiarism detection; linguistic profiling; discourse and speech act; corpus analysis of forensic texts (e.g. confessions, courtroom transcripts, police protocols, suicide letters, threatening letters); the language of (violent) offenders and/or victims;

FORENSIC SPEECH SCIENCES (FSS): speaker discrimination; perceptual speaker identification; speaker profiling; earwitnesses and voice line-ups; audio authentication; audio enhancement; intra- and interspeaker variation; automatic speaker recognition; cross-linguistic voice recognition; voice comparison; forensic speech and audio-analysis;

FL/FSS AND THE LAW: courtroom interpreting and translating; language testing for citizenship and asylum cases; language minorities and the law; cross-lingual legal discourse analysis; investigative interviewing and/or interrogative practices; deception detection; statutory interpretation;

FL/FSS AND EDUCATION: developing FL/FP curricula; FL/FP instructional materials; developing international ties between researchers and practitioners; teaching ethical and professional standards.

Final Call for Papers:

The Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics e.V. (GSFL) is pleased to announce its third call for papers for its Annual Roundtable in Forensic Linguistics and Phonetics
November 15-17, 2024.

The purpose of the GSFL Roundtable is to provide researchers, educators, and practitioners in Forensic Linguistics and/or Forensic Speech Sciences the opportunity to present and discuss their work within an interdisciplinary, supportive, and respectful scholarly environment. Our preliminary list of confirmed guest speakers includes the following:
- Professor Jan Engberg (University of Aarhus: DENMARK) “Translating in
legal settings as knowledge communication: What can we pass on and how?”
- Professor Jan Svennevig and Dr. Søren Sandager Sørensen (University of Agder: NORWAY) “Securing understanding of the suspects’ rights in investigative interviews”

Detailed abstracts for the upcoming lectures can be found online via the GSFL website.

We are currently accepting abstracts for our upcoming Roundtable which will be held online.

Invited topics for abstracts include but are not limited to the following four areas: FL; FORENSIC SPEECH SCIENCES (FSS); FL/FSS AND LAW; and FL/FSS AND EDUCATION. All interested authors are requested to submit a 250-word abstract by July 31, 2024 (DEADLINE EXTENDED).

To submit your abstract, please use the following link:
https://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/roundtable/registration-2/

Alternatively, abstracts may be sent directly to the GSFL Organizational Team [email protected]
Please place GSFL2024 in the subject line.

All submissions must be in either English, German, or Danish. All abstracts will be submitted to a triple blind review by a team of experts.

For more information on the GSFL or the GSFL2024 Roundtable, please use this link: http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/

We Look Forward to Welcoming You!