LINGUIST List 15.2216

Tue Aug 3 2004

Calls: Forensic Ling/UK ; General Ling/USA

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  • hdls, 6th High Desert International Linguistics Conference

    Message 1: International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference

     Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:39:04 -0400 (EDT)
    From: cotterillj <cotterilljcardiff.ac.uk>
    Subject: International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference


    International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference Short Title: IAFL 7

    Date: 01-Jul-2005 - 04-Jul-2005 Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom Contact: Janet Cotterill Contact Email: cotterilljcardiff.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference

    Linguistic Sub-field: Forensic Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2004

    Meeting Description:

    International Association of Forensic Linguistics (IAFL) Conference

    Cardiff, UK July 2005

    Dates: July 1 ~ July 4 2005 Location: Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Contact: Dr Janet Cotterill Email: Cotterilljcardiff.ac.uk

    Cardiff University will host the 7th International Association of Forensic Linguistics (IAFL) conference. The meeting is a 4-day conference on forensic linguistics/language and law, to be held from the 1st to the 4th of July 2005.

    Papers are invited will deal with all aspects of forensic linguistics/language and law, in both civil and criminal contexts, including, but not limited to the following:

    courtroom language

    police interviews

    courtroom interpreting and translating

    the readability/comprehensibility of legal documents

    the analysis/interpretation of legal texts/statutes

    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

    INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS

    Abstracts should be 250-300 words long and should be submitted by email to:

    iaflabstractscardiff.ac.uk

    (Please use this address for abstracts only)

    CONFERENCE BURSARY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS: THE MALCOLM COULTHARD SCHOLARSHIP

    The Cardiff conference will mark the inaugural year of the Malcolm Coulthard Scholarship, a bursary set up in honour of Professor Malcolm Coulthard, the Founding President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. The scholarship acknowledges Professor Coulthard's major contribution to the establishment and promotion of the field.

    The bursary is available to postgraduate students who are intending to present a paper at the conference, and provides a waiver of conference registration and accommodation fees, as well as reasonable travel costs, up to a maximum of �750 (US$1200).

    Students who are interested in applying for the bursary should indicate this clearly when submitting their abstracts, and should also include a statement of 250-400 words, indicating why they should be considered for the award.

    FURTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION

    Further details about the conference, including registration forms, travel information, programmes and abstracts will be posted on the conference website (currently under construction, available from mid-August):

    http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference

    INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS

    Abstracts should be 250-300 words long and should be submitted by email to:

    iaflabstractscardiff.ac.uk

    (Please use this address for abstracts only)

    Abstracts should contain:

    Title of the presentation Name(s) of the author(s) Affiliation of the author(s) Both e-mail and postal addresses Any special audio-visual/IT requirements (OHPs and Powerpoint will be available as standard, but please signal any requirements for video/DVD etc.)

    Call deadline: December 31, 2004

    Presentation slots will be 30 minutes long, including questions.

    PROPOSALS FOR THEMATIC SYMPOSIA

    As well as individual abstracts, groups of speakers may submit a set of abstracts for a themed panel on any relevant topic. Such groups will normally take up a whole session of either 90 mins or 120 mins, and group members may apportion their time within that as they wish. All sessions should allow time for questions and discussion. All the abstracts for such sessions will be considered together, as a group, and a coordinator for the whole session should be nominated. Abstracts for such themed sessions should be submitted together with the same format as specified for individual abstracts.

    Message 2: 6th High Desert International Linguistics Conference

     Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
    From: hdls <hdlsunm.edu>
    Subject: 6th High Desert International Linguistics Conference


    6th High Desert International Linguistics Conference Short Title: HDLS - 6

    Date: 04-Nov-2004 - 06-Nov-2004 Location: Albuquerque NM, United States of America Contact: Christopher Shank Contact Email: hdlsunm.edu Meeting URL: http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference2004/

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 03-Sep-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Please note that the conference will take place from November 4th to the 6th and not the 3rd - 5th as indicated in the first posting.

    - ------------------------------------------------ The Sixth High Desert International Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, November 4 -6, 2004. We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 10-minute discussion sessions in any area of linguistics - especially those from a cognitive / functional linguistics perspective

    The deadline for submitting abstracts is September 3rd, 2004.

    Papers in the following areas are particularly welcome:

    Evolution of language, Grammaticization, Metaphor & Metonymy, Language change & variation, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Signed languages, Gesture, Native American languages, Language acquisition and Computational Linguistics.

    The deadline for submitting abstracts is September 3rd, 2004. Abstracts should be sent via email, as an attachment, to hdlsunm.edu. Please include the title ''HDLS-6 abstract ''in the subject line. MS-Word format is preferred or RTF if necessary. The e-mail and attached abstract must include the following:

    1. Author's Name(s) 2. Author's Affiliation(s) 3. Title of the Paper 4. E-mail address of the primary author

    The abstract should be no more than one page and no less than 11-point font. A second page is permitted for references and/or data. Only two submissions per author will be accepted and we will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by the evening of September 5th, 2004

    If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdlsunm.edu with ''HDLS-6 Conference'' in the subject line.