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Call for Papers
The third international conference of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL)
is entitled
Controversies in Legal Linguistics
and will be held on 13 December 2024 at Sigmund Freud University Vienna,
co-hosted by the AALL and the Faculty of Law.
The conference will host original and high-quality presentations covering a wide range
of topics within the field of legal linguistics and forensic linguistics which may include,
but are not limited to, the following areas of research:
1 Law and language
Theoretical legal linguistics; applied legal linguistics; legal semiotics, semantics and
pragmatics; European legal linguistics; international business communication; statutory
interpretation; law and computer-mediated communication; courtroom interpreting and
legal translation; asylum procedure and human rights; sign language(s) and the legal
system; the philosophy of language and law; linguistic rights and minorities around the
globe; gender in legal language; law, language and sexual violence; research ethics in
legal linguistics; historical legal linguistics; corpus linguistics and the law; disruptive
technologies and the legal profession; COVID-19 and medico-legal communication;
neuro/ psycholinguistics and the law; legal and political discourse, arbitration and
restorative justice.
2 Law and language in education
Legal language teaching in Europe; legal curricula development; corpus linguistics and
legal education; teaching law in the multilingual classroom; multilingualism in legal
contexts; legal aptitude testing; learner corpora and moot courts; ethics in legal language
teaching; disability and legal education; translanguaging in legal education.
3 Forensic linguistics
Issues in forensic linguistics and forensic phonetics; discourse analysis in forensic
settings; authorship analysis and speaker identification; linguistic profiling; corpus
analysis in forensic contexts; speaker variation and speaker recognition; language use
of defendants, victims and the judiciary; expert testimony and linguistic evidence;
expert opinions; plagiarism detection; language and forensic psychiatry.
Web: oegrl.com
ZVR-Nr.: 1050981907
Applications may be in English or German and can be submitted for formal paper
presentations of 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion), or poster presentations.
Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of between 200 and 250 words, including
the title, theoretical background, research question(s) and methodology of their project
by 1 October 2024.
Applicants should include 4-5 keywords and a short list of key references.
Applicants can submit two abstracts, provided one of them is co-authored.
Applicants should specify the intended presentation format in their proposal (formal
paper presentation or poster presentation).
The abstract(s), along with full name and affiliation of the applicant(s), should be sent
by email to daniel.green@mail.sfu.ac.at
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.
Applicants will receive a decision on acceptance or rejection of their submission
by 30 October 2024.
The AALL24 Organising Committee AALL24 Conference & Event
Daniel Green Management
Sarah Brustmann Januš C. Varburgh
Paul Schwarzenbacher
Januš C. Varburgh
Maria Pober
Cornelia Eißler
Web: oegrl.com
ZVR-Nr.: 1050981907
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