Session on Law & Language at the 2006 ISA Conference
The Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RC12) of the ISA invites paper submissions for a session on law and language at the XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa 23-29 July 2006. This session will present papers that employ discourse analytic methods in researching legal settings. These can be informed by any theoretical perspective in sociology, anthropology, law and society studies or sociolinguistics. The aim is to present empirical work, but also review methodological debates in this field, for example, between critical discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis in understanding legal hearings.
The session will be held jointly with the Research Committee on Sociolinguistics (RC25).
Please send abstracts by 15th December to max.travers@utas.edu.au.