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International
Association
of Forensic Linguists
7th
Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law
1st
~ 4th July 2005
Cardiff
University, UK
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Conference Programme
Day 1: Friday July 1st 2005
11.00
– 1.00 |
Registration - Humanities
Refectory (Ground Floor, Humanities Building - No 16 on campus map) |
12.45 – 1.45 |
Welcome Lunch - Humanities Refectory
(Ground Floor, Humanities Building) |
1.45-2.15 |
Conference Opening and Welcome -
Room 2.01 (2nd Floor, Humanities Building) |
2.30-6.00 |
Parallel Sessions - Rooms 2.01 and
2.03 (2nd Floor, Humanities Building) |
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Room 2.01 |
Room 2.03 |
2.30-3.00 |
Chair: Tim
Grant
Hannes Kniffka
Bonn University
Orthographic Data in forensic linguistic authorship analysis |
Chair: Sue
Blackwell
Bart DeFrancq
Ghent University
Europe's constitution: a terminological battleground |
3.00-3.30 |
Georgia Frantzeskou,
Efstathios Stamatatos and Stefanos Gritzalis
University of the Aegean, Greece
Source Code Authorship Analysis using N-grams |
Richard Creech
Attorney-at-Law
Language Law and Celtic Identity in the European Union |
3.30-4.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
4.00-4.30 |
Chair: Malcolm
Coulthard
Sam Tomblin
Cardiff University
Author Online: Evaluating the Use of the World Wide Web in
Cases of Forensic Authorship Analysis |
Chair: Diana
Eades
Isabel Gomez Diez
Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium) and Universidad Pompeu Fabra
(Spain)
The transformation of asylum seekers’ narratives through the
asylum procedure |
4.30-5.00 |
Tim Grant
University of Leicester
Quantifying evidence in forensic authorship analysis |
Yves Talla Sando
Ouafeu
Universität Freiburg in Breigau, Germany
The Use of Prosodic clues in the identification of the national
origin of English-speaking African Asylum seekers in Germany: Focus
on Cameroon and Nigerian English speakers |
5.00-5.30 |
Carole Chaski
Institute for Linguistic Evidence, Inc
Alternative Distance Measures for Validating the Syntactic Analysis
Method |
Susanne van
der Kleij
Radboud University Nijmegen/Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
Interruptions in Asylum Narratives at the Dutch Immigration
Service
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5.30-6.00 |
Marta Sanchez,
Jaume Llopis and M. Teresa Turell
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Intra and Inter-author comparisons: the case of function Words:
Are function words really functional in stylometric studies of authorship
attribution? |
Victor J. Boucher
Université de Montréal On
the measurable linguistic correlates of deceit in recounting passed
events
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6.00-6.15 |
Transfer to Julian Hodge
Lecture Theatre for Plenary |
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6.15
- 7.15 pm
Plenary
Talk - Julian Hodge Building Lecture Theatre
Detective
Inspector Kerry Marlow
The
Development of Investigative Interviewing:
A new phenomenon in British policing
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7.30pm
Welcome
drinks reception
(University Main Building)
Sponsored by Palgrave
Wine and
Nibbles
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Day 2: Saturday July 2nd 2005
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Room 2.01 |
Room 2.03 |
9.00-9.30 |
Chair:
Chris Heffer
Roger Shuy
Georgetown University
When All Else Fails, Be Ambiguous:
A Prosecution Strategy in the International Criminal Tribunal
on Yugoslavia |
Chair: Krzysztof
Kredens
Jordi Cicres and M Teresa
Turell
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Short and long-term variation
in intonation patterns: a preliminary study for speaker identification |
9.30-10.00 |
Ogone John
Obiero
Maseno University,
Kenya
Injustice in Discourse of Cross-Examination
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Peter Smith
and Gea de Jong
City University,
London
Speaker Identification: Function
Words and Beyond |
10.00-10.30 |
Amy Wang
Lancaster University
When precision meets vagueness:
a corpus-assisted approach to vagueness in Taiwanese and British
courtrooms |
Viktoria
Papp
Rice University,
Houston TX
Perception of similar voices
and the similarity criterion in voice lineups |
10.30-11.00 |
Farinde
Raifu Olanrewaju
University of Wales,
Bangor
Power and Asymmetries in the
Nigerian Courtroom System
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Mark Griffiths
Cardiff University
Towards the audiofit - non-linguists’ perceptions and articulations
of unknown voices in a forensic context |
11.00-11.30 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
11.30-12.00 |
Chair: John
Gibbons
Robert Rodman, Erik Eriksson
and Robert Hubal
North Carolina State
University, USA, Umeå University, Sweden and RTI International,
North Carolina, USA
Deducing emotions from speech:
Forensic implications |
No parallel session |
12.00-12.30 |
Allan Bell
Auckland University
of Technology
Advocating indigenous language
rights in the courts: Maori language television in Aotearoa/New
Zealand |
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12.30-1.00 |
Du Jinbang
Guangdong University
of Foreign Studies
Information Processing and Utilization
in Courtroom Interactions |
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1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
2.00-2.30 |
Chair:
Gill Grebler
Ruth Lanouette
Lawrence University,
USA
An Examination of a Pro Se
Defense |
Chair: Peter
Tiersma
Nicola Langton
Cardiff University
Cleaning up the Act |
2.30-3.00 |
Judith Rochecouste
and Rhonda Oliver
Monash University
and Edith Cowan University, Australia
Evidential strategies used by
expert witnesses
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Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy
National University
of Ireland, Galway
The ‘liaison dangereuse’ between
individual liability and collective guilt: interpreting the language
of Article 7(1) of the ICTY statute |
3.00-3.30 |
Fleur van
der Houwen
University of Southern
California
Negotiating disputes through
formulations and decisions |
Wojciech
Kwarcinski
Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznan, Poland
Some parallels between pragmalinguistic
and legal models of interpretation |
3.30-4.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
4.00-4.30 |
Chair: Dennis
Kurzon
Godfrey A. Steele
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The language of the law and
the interpretation of the law: Issues of language and communication |
Chair: Richard
Creech
Chris Heffer
Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jury Instruction as Communication
Process
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4.30-5.00 |
Luciana
Romano Morilas
UNESP Araraquara,
São Paulo, Brazil
Interaction and power in written
Brazilian forensic texts |
Michael
Walsh
University of Sydney,
Australia
Educating the judge? Linguistic
evidence in Native Title and land claim cases in Australia
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5.00-5.30 |
Larry Solan
Brooklyn Law School
Pernicious Ambiguity in Legal Texts
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Weiming
Liu
Northwest University
of Political Science & Law, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
Illocutionary and Perlocutionary
Acts in Chinese Judge’s Attached Discourse
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5.30-7.00 |
Break |
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Aberdare
Hall
7pm
Pre-Dinner
Drinks Reception
7.30pm
IAFL
Cardiff Conference Dinner
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Day 3: Sunday July 3rd 2005
9.15-10.15
am
Julian Hodge Building Lecture Theatre
IAFL
Keynote Speaker:
Professor
John Gibbons
Hong
Kong Baptist University / University of Sydney
President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
Pressure
Points: How witnesses come to agree with what they do not believe
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Room 2.01 |
Room 2.03 |
Room X0.04 |
10.30-11.00 |
Chair: Peter
Patrick
Dennis Kurzon
University of Haifa,
Israel
Interpretation without linguistics:
The case of Newdow |
Chair:
Carole Chaski
Krzysztof Kredens
University of Lodz
Lexicography and the ownership
of language – a case study |
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
|
11.30-12.00 |
Chair: Janet
Cotterill
Terry Royce
Teachers College,
Columbia University (Tokyo, Japan)
The Negotiator and the Bomber:
an interactive analysis of active listening in crisis negotiations |
Chair: Maite
Turell
María Ángeles
Orts
Universidad de Murcia
Business, company or corporation? The hidden dimension to
contemplate when translating Company Law into Spanish |
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12.00-12.30 |
Ron Butters
and Jackson Nichols
Duke University
What Can Go Wrong When Linguists
Testify in American Trademark Litigation |
Blake Stephen
Howald
University of Detroit
Mercy School of Law
Comparative and Non-Comparative
Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating
the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in
American Criminal Procedure |
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12.30-1.00 |
Break |
Break |
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1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
|
2.00-2.30 |
Chair: Frances
Rock
Burns Cooper
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Justice a la Mode: Potential
pitfalls of electronic modes of courtroom discourse |
Chair:
Silke Kirschner
Alma Ortiz
CELE-UNAM-MÉXICO
Foreign Language Learning Centre – National Autonomous University
of México
Testing the Reading Ability
of University Law Students in Mexico |
Symposium:
NB 2.00-5.30
Language analysis in Asylum Cases:
Defining a New Branch of Forensic Linguistics
(Coordinator: Maaike Verrips)
Welcome: defining a new branch of forensic linguistics
Maaike Verrips, de Taalstudio |
2.30-3.00 |
Alison Johnson
University of Birmingham
"From where are sat" Achieving a change of state in
suspect and witness
knowledge through evaluation in the police interview |
Christian
Braun, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Kerstin Kunz and Stella Neumann
Saarland University
The Syntactic Complexity of
German Legalese - An Empirical Approach |
NB 2.00-5.30
Forensic linguistics and language analysis in asylum seeker cases:
The development of Guidelines by an international group of linguists
Diana Eades, University of New England
LINGUA - More than guidelines
Eric Baltisberger, LINGUA
On the collection of ‘useful and
reliable data’
Maaike Verrips & Suzanne Dikker, de Taalstudio
Problems, prospects and perspectives
on language analysis in UK refugee status determination
Peter L Patrick, University of Essex, & Nick Oakeshott, Refugee
Legal Centre
The use of spontaneous or elicited
loanwords in determining national origin/socialization in cases
of languages spoken in more than one country: a procedure
Dieke Rietkerk, freelance language analyst
The significance of Sudan for forensic
linguistics
Al-Amin Abu-Manga, University of Khartoum
Discussion
[Alternate paper: Supplementing
the Language Analyst’s Intuitions with Empirical Consultation
Work on Acceptability, Oscar Nkulu, freelance linguist]
NB
2.00-5.30 |
3.00-3.30 |
Susan Berk-Seligson
Vanderbilt University
False confession: linguistic
and extralinguistic evidence of coercion in a police interrogation |
Maurice
Varney
"You have already won a
guaranteed major prize". The use of language to deceive and
rob
|
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3.30-4.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
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4.00-4.30 |
Chair: Ron
Butters
Deborah Bradford and Jane
Goodman-Delahunty
University of New
South Wales
Truthful vs. deceptive confessions:
Investigating the performance of statement analysis techniques
at detecting deception in the confessional context |
Chair: Michelle
Aldridge
Bencie Woll and Joanna Atkinson
City University London
Deaf and No Language: Communication and the Law |
|
4.30-5.00 |
Margaret
van Naerssen
Immaculata University
and University of Pennsylvania
Testing for Possible Faking
of Language Proficiency by Defendants |
Frances
Rock
Roehampton University
Writing rights right or writing them off? The utility of written
rights information in police custody |
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5.00-5.30 |
Gill Grebler
Linguistic and Cultural Forensics
“And then what did she say?” making confession statements believable
and compelling (even when they are false) |
Amy Pi-Chan
Hu
National Cheng-chi
University, Taipei, Taiwan
On the Precision of Pronouns:
The Mountain Is Ours |
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5.30-6.00 |
Mel Greenlee
California Appellate
Project
“At that time my speaking doesn’t
make any sense”: Interpreters and capital error |
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6.00-7.00 |
IAFL AGM - Room 2.01 |
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7.30 |
Dinner
Cardiff Bay
(self-financed but transport provided!) |
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Day 4: Monday July 4th 2005
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Room 2.01 |
Room 2.03 |
9.00-10.30 |
Symposium 1:
Plain Language and Transparent Legal System for Lay People
(Coordinator: Mami Hiraike Okawara) |
Symposium 2:
Studies in Forensic Linguistics for Pre-Law Students
(Coordinator: William G. Eggington) |
10.30-11.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee |
11.30-12.00 |
Chair: Mami
Okawara
Michelle Aldridge and June
Luchjenbroers
Cardiff University
and University of Wales, Bangor
Questions, Metaphors and Frames:
Methods of manipulation, and subsequent analysis
|
Chair: Susan
Berk-Seligson
Sandra Evans
The University of
the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
The Use of Court Clerks as 'Makeshift'
Legal Interpreters in St Lucian Courts
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12.00-12.30 |
Sue Blackwell,
Jess Shapero and Willem Meijs
University of Birmingham
Texts of Murder and Martyrdom
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Clive Forrester
University of the
West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
The Discourse of Time in the Jamaican Courtroom: Creole speaking
witness meets English speaking counsel
|
12.30-1.00 |
Richard Powell
Nihon Unversity,
Tokyo
Motivations for codeswitching
in Malaysian courtrooms |
|
1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
2.00-2.30 |
Chair: Alison
Johnson
Silke Kirschner
Serious Crime Analysis Section, National Crime and Operations
Faculty
Behavioural consistency? Linguistic
concepts of variation and the analysis of speech in case linkage
|
Chair: Michael Walsh
Natalie Stroud
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
The Koori Court in Victoria:
a response to the over-representation of Indigenous Australians
in the Criminal Justice System |
2.30-3.00 |
Cecilia
Joseph
University of Malaya
and Cardiff University
Listening to manage resistance to talk: Balancing neutrality
and affiliation in forensic interviews with children
|
Lysbeth
Ford and Dominic McCormack
Batchelor Institute
of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NT Australia and MARLUK Link-Up,
Darwin, NT Australia
The Murrinh-patha Legal Glossary: a bridge between laws
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3.00-3.30 |
Carol Morgan
Children's Justice Center of Utah County / Child Witness
Institute, Portland
“What happens” in child forensic
interviewing: Increasing event detail by improving narrative elicitation
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3.30-4.00 |
Tea/coffee and goodbyes
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