LINGUIST List 26.105
Fri Jan 09 2015
Calls: Forensic Ling, Phonetics, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Dec-2014
From: Iman Nick <mavi.yaz
web.de>
Subject: Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics
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Short Title: GSFL2015
Date: 04-Sep-2015 - 06-Sep-2015
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Iman Nick
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.gsfl.info/roundtable--15.html
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2015
Meeting Description:
The purpose of the GSFL Roundtable is to provide reseachers, teachers, and practitioners (e.g. police officers, psychologists, interpreters, lawyers. etc-)working within forensic linguistics/phonetics the opportunity to present and discuss their work within a supportive, creative, interdisciplinary environment.
The confirmed guest speakers include the following:
Dr. Esliabeth Carter, Bucks New University, UK
Dr. Gea De Jong Marburg University, Germany
Dr. Stefan Holgersson, Linköping University, Sweden
Dr. Isabel Picornell, QED Limited, UK
Dr. Dominic Watt, University of York, UK
Call for Papers:
Paper and poster abstracts are invited in any of the following areas:
Forensic Linguistics:
- Authorship identification, verification, and attribution
- Detecting plagiarism
- Computational methods of linguistic profiling
- Corpus analysis of forensic texts (e.g. confessions, courtroom transcripts, police protocols, suicide letters, threatening letters, blackmail, hatemail, etc.)
- The language of (violent) offenders, victims, and/or therapists
Forensic Phonetics:
- Speaker discrimination and voice comparison
- Voice line-ups and perceptual speaker identification
- Foreign/second language speaker and identification
- Formant measurement, dynamics, and pattern identification
- Intra- and inter-speaker variation
- Automatic speaker recognition
- Cross-linguistic voice recognition
Forensic Linguistics/Phonetics and Education:
- Developing FL/FP programs and curricular
- FL/FP instructional materials (textbooks, audiovisual aids, corpora, etc.)
- Developing ties between universities and professional organizations
- Interdisciplinary challenges and promises
- The future of FL/FP education inside and outside of Europe
- Teaching ethical standards in FL/FP research and application.
All interested authors are requested to submit a 250-word abstract by June 15, 2015 using the following link: http:/
www.gsfl.info/abstract-submission.html. Submissions may be in either English or German but most conform with the LSA stylistic regulations. After the deadline, all abstracts will be submitted to blind review by a team of FL/FP experts.
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