LINGUIST List 33.3848
Tue Dec 13 2022
FYI: Ethics in Forensic Linguistics
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 06-Dec-2022
From: Dr. I.M. Nick <mavi.yaz
web.de>
Subject: Ethics in Forensic Linguistics
E-mail this message to a friend As evidence-gatherers for the court, forensic linguists are routinely expected to provide reliable and verifiable information, unbiased by personal opinion or expectation. The assumption underlying this goal is that forensic linguists must remain entirely neutral to serve the arbiters of justice. Increasingly, this presumption has come under fire, however. Aside from the fact that it is doubtful whether any human endeavor can be completely devoid of personal agenda, bias, and/or emotion, there is the very real question of whether dispassionate science is always in the best interests of social justice. As history has shown, the stoic disregard for the potential real-world impact of research may do real and lasting harm to the very communities science is charged with serving. This call is for book chapter proposals which address the ethical challenges involved in the objective collection, examination, and application of linguistic evidence for forensic purposes (e.g., police investigations; suspect interrogations; witness questioning; asylum-seeker applications; court transcription, interpretation, and/or translation; drafting, interpreting, and applying legislation, etc.). Proposals must examine ethical issues related to people who have been historically marginalized (e.g., the differently abled, ethnoracial minorities, members of the LGBTQ++ community, immigrants and asylum-seekers, indigenous peoples, etc.) and have routinely been disadvantaged within the world’s legal systems.
For consideration, book proposal submissions must the include the following elements as a PDF email attachment: 1.) A detailed abstract (max. 1,000 words); 2.) a working title; 3.) a set of keywords (max. 7); 4.) a preliminary list of references (max. 20); 5.) a brief biographical sketch of the contributing authors (max 200 words per author); 6.) the institutional affiliation and email address of each contributing author. In the case of multi-authored proposals, please be sure to designate a primary contact for correspondence. The submission address for proposals is (ethicsandfl
gmail.com). The deadline for proposal submissions is January 15, 2023. For organizational purposes, please be sure to include the codeword “ETHICS” in the content line of your email. Authors will be notified about acceptance on or about February 1, 2023. Authors whose proposals are accepted will be expected to submit a first complete draft of their chapters (max. 6,000 words, excluding references, an abstract, and graphics) by May 2023. Please direct any questions to the following address: ethicsandfl
gmail.com.
We look forward to receiving your submission!
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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