The Third International Conference on Law, Translation and Culture (LTC3) invites researchers of divergent cultural and language backgrounds from different disciplines and across jurisdictions. The themes include but are not limited to the following strands:

Strand I: Language for Specific Purposes (LSP)

1. Language for legal purposes
2. Language for sci-tech purposes
3. Language for business purposes
4. Corpus linguistics and LSP
5. Discourse analysis and LSP

Strand II: Translation/Interpreting for Specific Purposes (T/ISP)

1. Trainings on legal translators and court interpreters
2. Ethics of legal translators and court interpreters
3. Fundamentals on legal translation and court interpreters
4. Corpus and T/ISP
5. Machine-based specialized translation

Strand III: Multiculturalism

1. Legal cultures
2. Business cultures

Individual proposals should be submitted to waiyuzstu@gmail.com before 30 Nov 2012. Panel proposals should be submitted to waiyuzstu@gmail.com and Le Cheng (chengle163@hotmail.com) before 15 Dec 2012.

All selected papers (6 pages) will be included in the Proceedings of LTC 2013 to be indexed by CPCI-SSH. Full-length papers based on the presentation are invited to the Special Issues with International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse, and International Journal of Legal Translation and Court Interpreting.

Important Dates

• Individual abstract submission: 30 Nov 2012 (300-500 words)
• Panel proposal submission: 15 Dec 2012 (800-1000 words)
• Notification of acceptance: 31 Dec 2012
• Early-bird registration: By 31 Mar 2013 (RMB1,000)
• Full paper submission (6 pages; optional): 31 Mar 2013
• Acceptance of full paper: 30 Apr 2013

Conference Chair

• Xingcan MENG (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

Conveners

• Le CHENG (City University of Hong Kong)
• Changmi WANG (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

Organizer

• School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Venue

• Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

第三届法律翻译与文化国际会议