interpreting – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language at work

The (un)imagined work of linguistic inclusion

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with PhD candidate Brynn Quick (Macquarie University, Australia) about her 2025 paper, The (un)imagined work of determining patients’ English…

Emily PachecoApril 22, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

The Social Impact of Automating Translation

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in the…

Tazin AbdullahAugust 3, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho. Dr. Cho has guested on this show previously, and she is a senior…

Brynn QuickJuly 18, 2025

Language and law

What’s new in research on multilingualism in court?

Editor’s note: The convenors of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN), Dr Alex Grey and Dr Laura Smith-Khan, have started this new LLIRN About Us blog series to…

Language on the MoveSeptember 17, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

English ideologies in Korea

Did you know that the US is referred to as "Beautiful Country" in Korean? Or that different ways of speaking English index different class positions? Or that English has become…

Brynn QuickSeptember 8, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Language policy at an abortion clinic

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an…

Brynn QuickJuly 5, 2024

Language and law

What’s new in “Language and Criminal Justice” research?

NSW Police (Image credit: Edwina Pickles, SMH) Editor's note: The Language on the Move team closely collaborates with the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN). To raise awareness of…

Language on the MoveJuly 1, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual families

Between Deaf and hearing cultures

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her 2023 memoir, The House With All The Lights…

Emily PachecoJune 1, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Covid-19

Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital

Hospital corridor, by Sadami Konchi © In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Erin Mulpur about how hospitals can provide linguistic minority…

Brynn QuickMarch 26, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Next Gen Literacies

Interpreting service provision is good value for money

In this new episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I spoke with Dr Jim Hlavac about interpreting in Australia. Dr Hlavac is a senior lecturer in the Monash…

Ingrid PillerMarch 20, 2024

Language and law Next Gen Literacies

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…

Laura Smith-KhanSeptember 22, 2023

English as a global language Research reflections

What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…

Language on the MoveOctober 31, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Language Barriers to Social Participation

When Yu Qi (not her real name) discovered her son was falling behind in school, she had no way of finding out why or how she could support him. After…

Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2022

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Language and communication in crisis

Malinche mediating between the Spanish and the Americans (Source: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, mid 16th c) We live in an age of crisis, as humanity confronts an ever-escalating climate and environmental…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians

The Sumerian Empire under King Shulgi (2094 to 2046 BCE) (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Do you know in which language the Sumerians started the written chronicle of humanity? It is a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2021

Intercultural communication

The interpreting profession in Ancient Egypt

Remember Joseph speaking to his brothers through an interpreter? Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers Academic interpreting often labors under the assumption that the profession…

Ingrid PillerJune 29, 2021