The Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics is pleased to announce its upcoming Roundtable in Forensic Linguistics, Forensic Phonetics or Forensic Speech Sciences. This annual event will be held online from November 17-19, 2023. The purpose of the Roundtable is to provide FL/FP researchers, educators, and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss their work within an interdisciplinary, supportive, and respectful scholarly environment. Invited topics for paper and poster abstracts include but are not limited to the following four areas:
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS authorship analysis; text comparison; plagiarism detection; linguistic profiling; discourse and speech act; corpus analysis of forensic texts (e.g. confessions, courtroom transcripts, police protocols, suicide letters, threatening letters); the language of (violent) offenders and/or victims;
FORENSIC SPEECH SCIENCES (FSS): speaker discrimination; perceptual speaker identification; speaker profiling; earwitnesses and voice line-ups; audio authentication; audio enhancement; intra- and interspeaker variation; automatic speaker recognition; cross-linguistic voice recognition; voice comparison; forensic speech and audio-analysis;
FL/FSS AND THE LAW: courtroom interpreting and translating; language testing for citizenship and asylum cases; language minorities and the law; cross-lingual legal discourse analysis; investigative interviewing and/or interrogative practices; deception detection; statutory interpretation;
FL/FSS AND EDUCATION: developing FL/FP curricula; FL/FP instructional materials; developing international ties between researchers and practitioners; teaching ethical and professional standards.
To view this year’s list of speakers and register for the Roundtable, just click HERE