V INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ENGLISH AND ESP LEXICOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY: THE WORDS OF THE LAW
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear Colleagues,
The Lexicology and Lexicography of Languages for Specific Purposes Research Group (LexESP), with the support of the Inter-University Institute for Applied Modern Languages (IULMA) and the Department of English Philology of the University of Alicante, is pleased to announce its “V International Seminar on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: The Words of the Law”, to be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) on April 26-27, 2018.
Abstracts of up to 300 words (not including references) should be submitted by Monday, February 1st, 2018. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed.
All abstract submissions will receive notification of the outcome of the review process by February 15th, 2018.
List of Topics
The organising committee encourages the submission of individual abstracts focused on the following areas:
Specialized Legal Lexis/Lexicology
Specialized Legal Dictionaries
Bilingual Legal Lexicography
Corpora and Legal Lexicology
Word-Formation Processes in Legal English
Legal Terminology and Terminography
Gender and Legal Language
Legal Phraseology and Collocation
Teaching and Learning Legal Vocabulary
Legal Language and the Media
Legal Terminology and Translation in Institutional Settings
Vocabulary and phraseology in the courtroom
Deadlines
Abstract submission: February 1st 2018.
Notification of acceptance: February 15th 2018.
Fees
Contributors: €80, Deadline: March 15th 2018
Attendees: €30, Deadline: April 23rd 2018
Students (with proof of student status): €10, Deadline: April 23rd 2018
Organizing committee
Miguel Ángel Campos (Chairman), José Ramón Calvo Ferrer (Secretary), Isabel Balteiro, Raquel Martínez Motos, Maria Amparo Alesón, Pablo Pérez Contreras
Keynote speakers
Lucja Biel (provisional title: "Legal terms and multilingual translation: a case of EU English terminology")
Gianluca Pontrandolfo (provisional title: "The importance of being patterned. Old and new perspectives on legal phraseology")
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