Doha, Qatar: The Arabic Linguistics and Lexicography Program at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSH) at the Doha Institute (DI) has announced the opening of the call for papers for the international conference “Forensic Linguistics: Theories and Applications”, which will was held at DI during April 28-29, 2025.

The conference focuses on exploring theories and practical applications in the field of forensic linguistics. It aims to promote awareness of forensic linguistics by studying its origins, significance, branches and development in order to stimulate scientific research in this specialist field.

The conference also aims to expand its various applications in law, justice, laboratories and both verbal and non-verbal communication. In addition, it aims to provide participants interested in the field an opportunity to exchange perspectives, experiences and scientific achievements.

In this context, dr. Mehdi Arar, head of the Arabic Linguistics and Lexicography Program, said one of the goals of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of expertise between academic researchers and practitioners in the fields of criminology and legal sciences.

He highlighted the wide range of topics that the conference sessions will cover, such as analysis of legal language, its interpretive guidelines, recent developments in forensic linguistics research, applications of forensic linguistics in judicial contexts, future trends, research avenues in linguistics forensics, the contributions of heritage researchers to the study and application of legal language and non-verbal communication in forensic linguistics.

According to the conference background paper, the field of “forensic linguistics” has yet to receive adequate specialist study, either in universities or in publications, as this discipline continues to expand day by day.

It now includes the examination of verbal abuse spread through social media and other means, identifying the initiator, speaker or writer of the abuse, cases of plagiarism, in addition to analysis of police files, interviews, warnings, witness statements and more.

This branch of applied linguistics includes the study of dialects, forensic phonetics, discourse analysis, the language of legal texts, the language of legal proceedings, and linguistic profiling that helps solve crime mysteries through linguistics.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is December 15, 2024, and final papers must be submitted by April 1, 2025.

It should also be noted that the Arabic Linguistics and Lexicography Program offers both master’s and doctoral degrees and strives to train an elite group of researchers qualified to practice scientific research in accordance with its global principles and standards, in the fields linguistics, lexicography, terminology. and associated applications of these sciences.

It also aims to enhance researchers’ intellectual independence and critical thinking and enable them to possess the tools of systematic research and global scientific standards; to be able to use their scientific knowledge and research experience to meet the needs of the region and contribute to addressing the problems of the Arabic language through scientific processing based on the achievements of theoretical and applied linguistics in the field of lexicology.