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Language and law

Refugee credibility assessment and the vanishing interpreter

Dr Laura Smith-Khan during her keynote at InDialog (Image credit: Dries Cavents, UGhent) Editor's Note: Asylum seekers in countries of the Global North need to communicate a credible fear of…
Linguistic landscapes

Japanese in Bangkok

Billboard advertising the Japanese food fair at Isetan I’ve never felt more welcome in a foreign city than where I am at the moment – Bangkok! It has to do…
Multilingual families

Free language choice?!

Inspired by Quantum Cloud, Younghyung Chung, 2004 (Source: risknfun.com) I don’t like the word 'choice.' So, when I recently asked someone I know well to consider an action that would…
English as a global language
English for everyone is unfair
Language and social justice
Many tongues instead of one!
Language and globalization
Anatomy of language shaming
Language and social justice
Power to fangyan!
English as a global language
Seeing Asians speaking English
Language at work
Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?