Linguapax
Law, Language and Professional Practice
The English Language Chair of the Law Faculty of the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli is pleased to announce its 2nd International Conference on Law, Language and Professional Practice. Drawing on some of the issues and discussions about the relationship between Law and Language in the first conference (17-19 June 2010), this second conference takes the theme forward by bringing into focus the third perspective of professional practice', which is particularly relevant to our increasingly globalised world today.
The conference aims to bring together scholars from applied linguistics and law as well as other disciplinary backgrounds to discuss the ways in which the issues of Law and Language play themselves out in professional practice in the legislative, (extra)-judicial, and educational spheres, by mutually complementing each other in discursive and professional genres and practices in a rapidly changing world of professions. Such issues may also tackle other professional practices of communication where law and language are involved to a greater or lesser extent. For the academy, for example, the relationship between Law and Language provides room for researchers to focus on language training for legal and other professionals, and similarly provides others with a site in which to investigate university courses and programmes requiring an understanding of law and legal practice while still focusing on language. Although the main focus is on such a relationship in 'professional' contexts, the conference does indeed also welcome scholars to address a more general view of Law and Language, as in 'social practice', taking on broader social issues of communicative practices, and other theme areas that scholars may encounter in their linguistic and legal research.
Abstract submission by 31 October 2011
Notification of acceptance by 30 November 2011
Early registration by 15 April 2012: Euro 120 + 20% VAT = 144 Euro
Standard registration by 5 May 2012: Euro 150 + 20% VAT = 180 Euro
Late registration from 6 May 2012 onwards: Euro 180 + 20% VAT = 216 Euro
Accompanying persons pay Euro 78 (includes coffee breaks and buffet
lunch, social dinner, guided tour) Undergraduate students pay Euro 60
(includes conference folder, coffee breaks, buffet lunch)
Please use the Conference address: LLPP2012unina2.it