15 March: DCLRS -- Dieter Stein and Victoria Guillen, Friday, March 23, 16:00
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Friday of next week (March 23, 2018), at 16:00, in room LB04 of the
Lloyd Institute (TCD), Prof. Dieter Stein and Prof. Victoria Guillen speak.
Title:
Language and law: an uneasy but necessary marriage
Abstract:
Law is arguably one of the most language-based disciplines. The talk first
discusses the ways language and law are similar as normative systems. After a
brief survey of points of contact and coherence between language and the law,
the talk proceeds to discuss ways in which central notions of the law like
"the text", "interpretation" and "literalness" are essentially activities of
language use and in which way they differ. An important aspect of the status
of language in the law are discipline-internal ideas of or beliefs about
language and how it functions, an important issue given the prominence of
language in the conduct of the law. Essentially, pragmatics-based views of how
language works seem, with the selective exception of speech-act theory, not to
have had a major impact in the law, partly as a consequence of
discipline-internal "operational" necessities in the law. Finally, the talk
takes up the issues of in committing crimes by using language and how to solve
crimes by the use of professional linguistic analysis, i.e. the field of
forensic linguistics.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dieter Alfred Stein is Emeritus chair of English Linguistics at
Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. One main focus of his work is
language development, others deal with pragmatics, open access
publishing, the linguistics of the Internet and, as a most recent
addition, language in the legal domain. In addition to teaching at his
home university, he teaches at several foreign universities including
China and the law school of UCLA Los Angeles.
Victoria Guillen holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the
University of Alicante (1993) and a Master's degree in Forensic
Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2008). At
present, she is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of
Alicante where she directs the Master's program in English and Spanish
for Specific Purposes and teaches Applied Linguistics and Forensic
Linguistics. She has worked as expert witness in Spain, Germany and
the US. She is currently doing research on language crimes, e.g. the
linguistics of mobbing in the workplace, defamation, and hate speech.
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