Important link: http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/ll2005/

• Date: 12-Sep-2005 - 14-Sep-2005
• Location: Lodz, Poland 
• Contact: Krzysztof Kredens
• Contact Email: linglex@uni.lodz.pl
• Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The conference seeks to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between scholars from the former Eastern Bloc countries and elsewhere in Europe and the world. 

Language and the Law 2005: East meets West 

Department of English Language, University of Lodz 

12 - 14 September 2005

FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between scholars from the former Eastern Bloc countries and elsewhere in Europe and the world.

Research in the interrelations of language and the law has of late gathered momentum in continental Europe. More and more academic projects are being implemented every year, which has been made possible by the development of the European Research Area, a structure designed as a research-coordinating equivalent of the common market. On May 1st 2004 ten new countries will join the European Union, making it a political structure of as many as 25 official languages. A timely acknowledgement of New Europe's role in jurislinguistic scholarship, the conference will be an excellent opportunity to address linguistic aspects of law-enforcement in a multilingual community, and in a legislatively uniform environment with different legal systems, adversarial and inquisitorial.

We invite papers discussing the role and shape of language in legal and forensic settings. The topics include:

• analysis of legal discourse, 
• structure and semantics of statutes and legal instruments, 
• legal terminology issues, 
• legal translation, 
• speech style in the courtroom, 
• social organisation of conversation in legal settings, 
• structure of cross-examination, 
• sociopragmatic aspects of interpreting in court, 
• comprehensibility of legal instruments, 
• language and disadvantage before the law, 
• linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights, 
• forensic linguistics (particularly forensic authorship attribution, 
• analysis of contested meanings and forensic phonetics)

This list is not exhaustive.

DATES 

The conference will be held over 3 days, from 12 to 14 September 2005 (arrival day 11 September) at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We expect approximately 100 participants from Poland and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and other parts of the world.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Susan Blackwell, The University of Birmingham, UK 
• Ronald R. Butters, Duke University, USA 
• Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz 
• Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School, USA 
• Maria Teresa Turell, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain 
• Marek Zirk-Sadowski, University of Lodz

PLENARY SPEAKERS 

• Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham, UK 
• Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo, Italy 
• Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
• Susan Sarcevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia

We have also invited a number of scholars to be semi-plenary speakers. Their names will be made public in the second circular.

ABSTRACTS 

Abstracts of papers should be up to 750 words long and forwarded (by e-mail, fax or mail) to the organisers. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 December 2004.

Presentations should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion.

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS 

Selected papers from the conference will be published by Peter Lang GmbH in a volume of the Lodz Studies in Language series.

COSTS 

The cost of conference registration, accommodation and meals at the conference centre is:

150 EURO fee 
300 EURO accommodation and meals

Colleagues from newly-joined EU states, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the former Yugoslavia can apply for a bursary to participate in the conference.

The conference fee will cover conference materials, participation in sessions, conference dinner and social programme. The accommodation/meals charge will cover accommodation in a single, twin or double room at the Lodz University Conference Centre, three meals a day and coffee breaks.

PAYMENT 

Payment should be by cheque (in US dollars or equivalent in other currencies), made out to: 
Lodz University, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (L&L 2005) 
and forwarded to: 
University of Lodz 
Department of English Language 
Al. Kosciuszki 65 
90-514 Lodz 
Poland

Bank transfers are also welcome. The account number is:

PKO S.A. II O/Lodz 86124030281111000028222488

Please state the following in your transfer description: L&L 2005-Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

Alternatively, cash or cheque payment can be made on arrival.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 
Dr Krzysztof Kredens 
Dr Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski

Department of English Language 
Al. Kosciuszki 65 
90-514 Lodz 
Poland 
tel: (#48) 42 6655220 
fax: (#48) 42 6655221
e-mail: linglex@uni.lodz.pl

FURTHER INFORMATION 

Further details about the conference will be publicised in regular circulars to participants and academic institutions. A web page will soon be operational where more information on our plans for the conference, Lodz, and Lodz University will be made available.

Official language of the conference will be English.

THE CITY OF LODZ 

Lodz, whose history dates back to the 15th century, is the second largest city in Poland, with a population of nearly one million people. It is located 130 km (85 miles) south-west of Warsaw, almost in the very centre of Poland. Its short yet remarkable history is closely linked to the growth of the textile industry - even today its most characteristic sights include late-19th-century neogothic factories and well-preserved, magnificent villas and palaces of former factory owners, now turned into museums or sites of various cultural and educational institutions. Lodz is not only an important industrial centre, but also a city of culture, often referred to as the capital of Polish film. The most renowned Polish film directors such as Krzysztof KieÅ>lowski, Roman PolaÅ"ski and Andrzej Wajda are all graduates of the world-famous Lodz Film School. Despite the fact that Lodz is an industrial city, it has the largest urban green areas in Poland, among them Lagiewniki, the biggest municipal park in Poland, with two wooden chapels and a Baroque monastery. Since 1945 Lodz has been an important academic centre with numerous state-run academic institutions, among them the University of Lodz.

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