Eleventh Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) / The 17th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law

The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. The aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world. The conference will be held over 3 days, from 24th to 26th June (Friday-Sunday) 2016 in Poznan, Poland. Papers are invited on the following topics:

 FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL

1. (comparative) forensic linguistics
2. forensic phonetics

• forensic authorship attribution

1. forensic stylistic
2. linguists as expert witnesses
3. linguistic features of forgeries and counterfeits of public documents

LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING

1. legal translation;
2. court interpreting;

• teaching legal translation and court interpreting

1. certified translators and interpreters in legal proceedings
2. mistranslation and misinterpreting in legal context

LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE

1. legal linguistics
2. history of legal language

• legal terminology

1. legal genres
2. EU legal language
3. analysis of legal discourse

• structure and semantics of statutes and other legal instruments;
• development of legal languages

1. legal and linguistic interpretation of texts formulated in legal language
2. teaching legal language
3. speech style in the courtroom

• comprehensibility of legal instruments
• Plain Language Campaigns
• linguistic aspects of cross-examination

1. technicality in legal language

HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS

1. history of legal systems
2. comparative study of legal systems

• common law versus civil law countries

LAWS ON LANGUAGES

1. language rights
2. linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights

• language and disadvantage before the law

Source: http://www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl/?main_data=legi2016&lang=en