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new journal (fwd)

This will be of interest to CEDA-L subscribers 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 05:39:05 -0800
From: Susan Ervin-Tripp <ervin-tr@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list ETHNO <ETHNO%RPITSVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: new journal

Some readers who work in courtroom and other legal settings may be interested
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 11:54
From: BLACKWELLSA@vms1.bham.ac.uk
Subject: New Journal: "Forensic Linguistics".

                          A New Journal for 1994
                      Announcement and Call for Papers

                            Forensic Linguistics:
        The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

   The Journal of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics
         and the International Association of Forensic Linguists

Edited by:

Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham and
Peter French, J.P. French Associates and University of Birmingham

Editorial Board:

Sue Blackwell, Angelika Braun, Jack Chambers, Tom Davis, Bethany Dumas,
Diane Eades, Bruce Fraser, John Gibbons, Michael Gregory, Harry Hollien,
Robert Kaplan, Hannes Kniffka, Hermann Kunzel, William Labov,
Peter Ladefoged, Judy Levi, Michael Mansfield QC, Sir David Napley,
Francis Nolan, Tony Sanford, Roger Shuy, Kate Storey

During the past ten years courts have begun to call more and more on the
skills of linguistically trained experts.  Yet at the moment there is
virtually no professional literature for forensic linguists.

"Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech, Language and
the Law" will be the first forum for those with an academic and
professional interest in the forensic applications of linguistic analysis.
The journal will include articles and commentaries on all aspects of
forensic language analysis:

o       the analysis of documents in cases of questioned authorship,
        handwriting analysis and electrostatic deposition analysis,
        as well as analyses of orthographical, lexical, grammatical
        and textual patterns

o       the analysis of tape-recordings to decide who is speaking,
        what is being said, and whether the tape in question
        has been edited

o       analysis of the English of non-native speakers where this
        has forensic significance

o       analyses of the interpretation/ meaning of words, phrases
        or longer parts of documents which are in dispute: this will
        include contracts, trademarks, summings-up, and instructions
        to juries

o       professional articles on the role and use of the linguist as
        expert witness


              **********   Call for Papers   **********

Articles, review articles, communications and other material for
publication should be submitted to:

The Editors, Forensic Linguistics,
School of English,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT,

or by fax to +44 (0) 21 414 5668
or by email to BLACKWELLSA@UK.AC.BHAM

Three copies of each paper should be submitted (except electronic
versions!), all contributions should be in English and should be
of a length appropriate to the topic, although it is expected that
most will be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length.  All submissions
will be refereed.

                              **********

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Volume 1 will be published in 1994; the first
issue will appear in May 1994; ISSN:1350-1771, two issues per volume

SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR 1994
UK/EC: Individual: 40.00 pounds sterling. Institution: 75.00 pounds.
USA/Canada: Individual: US$65.00  Institution: US$110.00
Rest of World: Individual: 42.00 pounds st.  Institution: 80.00 pounds.
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