Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:18:03 -0400
From: "Bethany K. Dumas" dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU
Subject: Int'l Ass'n of Forensic Linguists 3 - Duke University - 4-7 Sept. 97
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3rd Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Forensic
Linguists (Registration Information Follows Program]
Program (4-7 September 1997) [updated 28 July 1997]
Schedule at a Glance
Thur. 4ix97
3:30-5:30 1. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field I
5:30-7:00 2. Reception
Friday 5ix97
9:00-10:30 3. The Legal Significance of Ordinary Words
10:45-12:15 4. Legal Language
1:30-3:00 5. Style and Discourse
3:15-4:45 6. Electronic resources for Forensic Linguistics (3)
5:00-6:00 7. Plenary 1: Roger Shuy, Georgetown U.
Saturday 6ix97
8:30-10:30 8. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field II
10:45-12:15 9. Language in the Courtroom
1:30-3:00 10. Language and Power
3:15-4:45 11. Linguistic Issues in Legal Documents
5:00-6:00 12. Plenary 2: Larry Solan, Brooklyn College of Law
6:30-9:00 13. Banquet
Sunday7ix97
8:30-9:30 14. General Business Meeting
9:45-11:45 15. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field III
Papers and Presenters
1. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field I (Thursday 3:30-5:30)
William Hewitt, National Center for State Courts, VA
Court interpretation test: What we have learned and where
Robert Joe Lee, Administrative Office of the Courts, NJ
Models for delivering court interpreting services
Chris Howard, Administrative Office of the Courts, MD
Computer assisted language testing for court interpreters
Lois M. Feuerle, Office of Court Administration, NYC, and Joanne I. Moore, WA
State Supreme Court
Equal access to justice: how much accuracy is enough?
2. Reception (Thursday 5:30-7:00)
3. The Legal Significance of Ordinary Words (Friday 9-10:30)
Ronald Butters, Jeremy Sugarman, and Lyla Kaplan, Duke U.
What patients really know about the terms used in obtaining informed consent:
false comfort, unreasonable fear, and "medical research"
Michael Walsh, U. of Sydney
Ordinary English words: the language of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
Claire A. Hill, George Mason U. School of Law
Order in the shadow of the law or, how contracts do things with words
4. Legal Language (Friday 10:45-12:15)
C. Rodolfo Celis, U. of Chicago
Towards a forensic lexicography
Roger W. Cole, U. of South Florida
Forensic linguistics and applied linguistics: The role of legal English in
the law schools of the Czech Republic
Pamela Price Klebaum, UCLA
The social indexicality of a legal argument
5. Style and Discourse (Friday 1:30-3:00)
Susan Blackwell, U. of Birmingham, UK
Taking a closer look at "look": discourse markers in disputed texts
Malcolm Coulthard U. of Birmingham, UK
Disputed confessions: disputed authorship methodologies and problems
Bruce Fraser, Boston U.
Threatening revisited
6. Electronic resources for Forensic Linguistics (Friday 3:15-4:45)
Carole Chaski, Justice Department, Washington, DC
An electronic parsing system for document authentication
A. R. Gray, P. J. Sallis, and S. G. MacDonell, U. of Otago, New Zealand
Software forensics: extending authorship analysis to computer programs
David G. Hale, Olin Corporation, and Bethany K. Dumas, U. of Tennessee
Electronic resources for forensic linguistics: creating a web journal
7. Plenary 1: Roger Shuy, Georgetown U. (Friday 5:00-6:00)
Nine unanswered language questions about Miranda
8. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field II (Saturday 8:30-10:30)
John Gibbons, U. of Sydney, and Sandra Hale, U. of Western Sydney, Macarthur
Different realities: patterned changes in the interpreter's representation of
courtroom and external realities
Jenny Chan, Independent Commission Against Corruption, H.K.
Between Cantonese and English in court
Mami Hiraike Okawara, U. of Econ., Japan
The practice of interpreting in Japanese criminal cases
Susan Berk-Seligson, U. of Pittsburgh
How lawyers' questions can be made less coercive or more so: it's all up to
the court interpreter
9. Language in the Courtroom (Saturday 10:45-12:15)
Diana Eades, U. of Hawai'i at Manoa
Why did you lie to me? Language and power in the courtroom
Keller S. Magenau, Georgetown U.
An American rape trial: how the adversarial system of the American court
serves to privilege the framing of rape as consensual sex
Biljana Martinovski, U. of Gothenburg
Interactive mechanisms and feature in courtroom communication
10. Language and Power (Saturday 1:30-3:00)
Wm. O'Barr, Duke U., and John M. Conley, U. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Law, language, and power
Gillian Grebler, Santa Monica, CA
Vulnerable testimony: police interrogation and false confessions
11. Linguistic Issues in Legal Documents (Saturday 3:15-4:45)
Jeffrey Kaplan, San Diego State U.
Linguistic issues in the interpretation of wills
Bryan A. Liang, Pepperdine U. School of Law
Listening to the dead: culture and bias in interpreting dying declarations
Dennis H. Inman, Magistrate, Eastern District of Tennessee
Jury instructions from the judge's perspective
12. Plenary 2: Larry Solan, Brooklyn College of Law (Saturday 5:00-6:00)
[TBA]
13. Banquet (Saturday 6:30-9:00)
14. Gen'l Meeting of the Ass'n/Gen'l Business Meeting (Sunday 8:30-9:30)
15. Interpretation and Translation in the Legal Field III (Sunday 9:45-11:45)
Weiping Wu, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC
Evaluation of summary translation ability for linguists in law
enforcement agencies
Charles Stansfield, Second Language Testing Inc., MD
Standards for licensing court interpreters
Patricia Michelsen, Certified Federal Court Interpreter, VA
Court interpreters: training and certification
K.K. Sin, City U. of Hong Kong, HK
One country, two legal systems: problems in translating English legislation
into Chinese in Hong Kong
----- Registration -----
Third Biannual Conference of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORENSIC
LINGUISTS, 4-7 September, 1997, at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
USA.
REGISTRATON: Fees include regular sessions, conference package, three
continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, two box lunches, and a reception.
Advance registration fee: US $100 (on-site $135); Advance student
registration fee: US $70 (on-site $105); Optional Banquet: US $35. To
qualify for advanced registration, fees should be received prior to 15 August
1997. Registration fees should be sent in American dollars to: Mr. Charles
Carson, IAFL Conference Co-ordinator / Duke University / Box 90018 / Durham,
NC 27708-0018. Checks should be made out to Duke University. Receipts will be
mailed in return. Questions can be sent to the above address or via e-mail to
carson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acpub.duke.edu.
ACCOMMODATIONS: The conference will be hosted at the Washington Duke Inn, a
luxury hotel on the Duke University campus, featuring a four-diamond
restaurant and an 18-hole championship golf course. Rooms are $98 US + 11%
occupancy tax (for single or double occupancy; $10 additional for each
additional person, up to 4 in a room). A block of 40 rooms will be held at
this rate until 5 August 1997. If more than 40 people register prior to the
deadline, they may receive our conference rate based on availability. Also,
attendees can have the conference rate for up to two days before or after the
conference-again, based on availability. To make reservations, call, fax, or
write the Washington Duke Inn (mention the IAFL conference).
Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club
3001 Cameron Blvd
Durham NC 27706 USA
(919) 490-0999; Fax: (919) 688-0105
Reservations: (800) 443-3853
Web site: http://www.washingtondukeinn.com
Flights should be scheduled into Raleigh/Durham International
Airport;transportation can be obtained to and from the Washington Duke for US
$17.
Bethany K. Dumas, J.D., Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, Language & Law
Department of English EMAIL: dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utk.edu
415 McClung Tower (423) 974-6965, (423) 974-6926 (FAX)
University of Tennessee Editor, Language in the Judicial Process:
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430 USA http://ljp.la.utk.edu