第266講講座詳情

題目：

When Hollywood (and Other) Stars Sue for Defamation:The Role of Discourse Analysis

承辦單位：文科基地

講座內容簡介：

Sensational stories about famous people arethe bread and butter of newspapers called tabloids. Hollywood film stars,famous television personalities, and political figures are portrayed on thefront page in mesmerizing photographs with suggestive headlines that arecalculated to grab the eye of shoppers at supermarket check-out counters.Inside the tabloid, headlines, subheadlines, photographs, and the storiesthemselves may convey an unflattering impression of the famous person, sounflattering that the star deems it defamatory and files a lawsuit. Even whenevery sentence in a story is arguably defensible, the overall impressionconveyed by a story could damage the reputation of the targeted star. Thispresentation explores how context—headlines,photos, and captions—interact with text to convey a defamatoryeffect on readers when coupled with sentences each of which may be factuallytrue when considered independently. It also explores how text itself can bemanipulated to convey a false impression while claiming to be true. Thepresentation explores several tabloid stories involving entertainers and aworld-famous movie star.

主講人簡介：

Ed Fineganbegan his career teaching mathematics on Long Island. He then taught Englishand English linguistics at Ohio University and those and humanities at CaseWestern Reserve University while completing his Ph.D. He joined the USC facultyin 1968 and later served as founding chair of USC's Linguistics Department. In1975 and 1976, he directed a USC English-language teaching project for NationalIranian Radio and Television in Tehran. Besides a focus on discourse analysisand the discourses of law, his research addresses language variation andEnglish usage, including their treatment in dictionaries. He has contributedchapters on usage and grammar to the Cambridge History of the English Languageand on North American English to A History of the English Language (Cambridge).He is author of Attitudes toward English Usage: The History of a War of Words(Teachers College Press, Columbia University) and co-editor of Language in theUSA (Cambridge University Press) and of Sociolinguistic Perspectives onRegister (Oxford University Press). His introductory textbook Language:Its Structure and Use, 7th edition (Wadsworth/Cengage) will be published in2014. He served as founding general editor of "Oxford Studies inSociolinguistics" and on the editorial boards of the journals AmericanSpeech, Discourse Processes, English Language and Linguistics, and Corpora. Heis a member of the advisory board of USC’s Kortschak Center and the DictionarySociety of North America's delegate to the American Council of LearnedSocieties. He is president of the International Association of ForensicLinguists. Principally concerning linguistic aspects of contractinterpretation, defamation, and trademark, he has consulted for scores of lawfirms in more than a dozen states, as well as for the offices of the FederalPublic Defender and the California Attorney General. He served three times aspresident of the USC chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and for two years as co-presidentof USC's Lambda Alumni Association. He is the recipient of USC's AssociatesAward for Excellence in Teaching and has been twice honored by Dornsife Collegewith the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award. Since 2011 he hasserved as director of USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching and, starting in2014, serves as editor of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Societyof North America.

第267講講座詳情

題目：Accuracy of interpreting in courtroom settings

承辦單位：高翻學院

講座內容簡介：

Most Interpreting Codes of Ethicsmention the requirement for “accuracy” or “faithfulness” as one of its maintenets. Most interpreters would also agree that this is their primaryresponsibility. However, the concept of accuracy is a complex one which isoften ‘interpreted’ in many different ways. This paper will argue that the meaning of accuracy depends on the type and mode of interpreting, the settingwhere the interpreter works, the institutional requirements and the workingconditions under which an interpreter is working. It will focus on the meaningof accuracy in court interpreting, on the interpreter’s ethical requirementsand on the feasibility of achieving the ideal standards required.

主講人簡介：

Dr Sandra Hale isProfessor of Interpreting and Translation at the University of New South Walesin Sydney, Australia.

She has a long career as Spanish interpreter, educator and researcher. She is apioneer in community and court interpreting pedagogy and research and isrecognised internationally as an authority in the field. She was made Fellow ofAUSIT (the national professional association) in 2013 and awarded aDoctorate Honoris Causa in Interpreting and Translation Studies from theUniversity of Antwerp, in recognition for her innovative research, in 2014. Herbooks The discourse of court interpreting and Community interpreting arewidely used as text books nationally and internationally, with the lattertranslated into Spanish and into Japanese. She has recently co-authoredResearch Methods in Interpreting with Jemina Napier, and has co-edited twoother books Interpreting in Legal Settings with Debra Russell and Qualityin Interpreting: a shared responsibility with Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern.

She has also published many articles and book chapters.

She is currently working on two Australian Research Council funded projects oncourt interpreting, one project funded bythe FBI on police interpreting and twoon Interpreting in health settings. For more details go to:https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/sandra-hale/

第268講講座詳情

題目：

Who Wrote This?: An Introduction to ForensicLinguistic Methods of Author Attribution

承辦單位：法學院

講座內容簡介：

Forensic linguistics, the study oflanguage and linguistic issues in legal contexts, is becoming more and moreimportant in the resolution of legal disputes and in influencing best practicesin the development of law and legal practices world-wide. This presentationwill focus on just one of those areas—the field of authorship identification.Authorship attribution analysis is a prime example of the importance offorensic linguistics research to law. In many legal contexts, there is aquestion of fact about who wrote a document or text. I will first outline avariety of these situations, occurring in both civil and criminal matters, consideringboth the kind of written texts to be analyzed—their form, genre, and length—andthe questions posed by analyzing such texts. Then I will discuss the twomain schools of forensic linguistic analysis in authorship attributioncases—forensic stylistics and computational linguistics-based forensic textualanalysis--highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Finally,I will suggest ways in which the field is likely to develop in the future, andhow lawyers must be trained to take advantage of the advances in this area.What was impossible yesterday is now quite possible, and what is impossibletoday is likely to be practically achievable in the near future.

主講人簡介：

ProfessorAinsworth joined the staff of the Seattle-King County Public DefenderAssociation in 1980, serving in the appeals and felony divisions and astraining coordinator from 1985 to 1988, when she joined this faculty. Sheserved as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2001 to 2005, and hasbeen honored by students three times with teaching awards.

Herscholarship has engaged a variety of issues, including the application oflinguistics research to legal issues, criminal procedure, feminist criticaltheory, juvenile law, comparative law, imperial Chinese law, and law and socialscience. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles appearingboth in peer-reviewed social science journals and in law reviews including theYale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, and the Washington University LawQuarterly. Her articles have been reprinted in five anthologies.

In addition to scholarly writing and presentations, Professor Ainsworth isactive in a number of other professional endeavors. She has served on theExecutive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and as chair of the Law andAnthropology Section of the AALS, has served on several committees of the Lawand Society Association, as well as Secretary and member of the ExecutiveCommittee of the International Association for Forensic Linguists. Herpro bonoactivities include servingon the Board of Directors of the Seattle-King County Public Defender,writingamicus curiaebriefsto the Washington State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court,lecturing at dozens of Continuing Legal Education seminars, serving as a memberof numerous state criminal justice task forces, and serving as consultant tothe National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, from which she receivedits Outstanding Service Award in recognition of her contributions.

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2015年6月23日