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International Language and Law Association (ILLA) Focus Conference - 27 janvier 2023
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Le 27 janvier 2023Campus Tertrefalse false
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De 8h30 à 18h30
Salle du Conseil, Faculté des Langues et Cultures Étrangères (FLCE)
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International Language and Law Association (ILLA) Focus Conference
Legal Language & Discourse and the Sea
“But first, those who are at sea, in which category would you place them?” Anacharsis
The sea has historically been seen as a zone of exceptions to expected human behavior and codes. Law,as a human regulatory activity, has also made certain specificities for activities associated with the sea, including commerce (Corruble 2015, 2018; Fedi 2019). While maritime law and law of the sea are highly researched domains of law, few studies exist about the language associated with these fields, with a few exceptions (Orts Llopis 2014). In a global society that is increasingly impacted by
environmental, health, social, and political crises that partly unfold on the sea, this focus conference aims to unite legal scholars and linguists who work on the language of these fields.
We include fields of public and private law. Law of the sea generally deals with public law (Chaumette 2021) while private law is most often associated with maritime law. Law related to this domain is fragmented (Lavissiere & Fedi, in press) which allows large margins for negotiation by powerful companies, such as shipping companies. The business relationships of these companies are currently called into question (Fedi et al. 2022; Corruble 2021; Brooks et al. 2019). This conference will be an opportunity to investigate:
● the types of legal documents that frame these private relationships and the language that is specific to them and their rhetorical (Swales 1990) or pragmatic (Trosborg 1997) structure;
● language and discourse approaches to domestic law, especially competition law, related to maritime matters;
● Language and discourse approaches to domestic law, international law related to security in private companies that work in the maritime industry.
We equally extend this conference to language and discourse from fields related to the law of the sea, including:
● environmental questions (opening up of the Arctic sea route, threats that human sea activity pose to biodiversity);
● security questions (trafficking, piracy, conflicts);
● sovereignty issues (Corruble 2020) and coastal States (international waters, economic zones);
● concerns related to immigration, refugee crises, law enforcement (police border patrols, marines, naval infantry etc.) on the sea and in ports.
The fields of language related to these legal questions can include theoretical concerns in legal linguistics (Tiersma 1999), discourse and genre questions, terminology and other traits of specialized discourse, translation and interpretation. Papers may address concerns such as the following:
● What genres (Bhatia 1993, 2012) are specific to maritime law or law of the sea? How do they differ from genres in other fields of law?
● How does the specific framework in these domains affect language in their documents or oral genres?
● What terminological specificities do we observe?
● How are translation and interpretation affected by the specific legal framework?
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