Dr Laura Smith-Khan

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Law+language scholar at UNELaw (Aust). Affiliated external member CESSMIR UGent (Belg).
Asylum & migration procedures, disability, legal education & practice, access to justice. ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو

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Preschooler just asked me to push up the "sleeve" of their pants

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Bored? Join the #CADS2024 from home, at least our keynotes. Starting now, and around 10:00, Gerlinde Mautner starts the first talk. The conference opening and the keynote lectures will be streamed via https://tinyurl.com/5ye7ac5z @corpuslinguistics @DiscourseNet

23 August: Aboriginal Sign Language Forum will be held at Sydney University (online option available too). #Langsky 🐦🐦 Details and free registration 👇 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aboriginal...

Aboriginal Sign Language Forum 2024www.eventbrite.com.au Joins us for a day of celebration of Indigenous Sign Languages

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Incredibly worrying that in today’s digital world tech giants exercise the power to punish those of whom they disapprove, with devastating consequences and no effective recourse for the victims

Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gazawww.bbc.com Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype are being blocked and banned from using Microsoft products.

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I have spent my career at Tech companies, and I reckon this: Innovation for innovation's sake is sexy but useless. No code is magical enough to be worth a damn if it doesn't do something real human people want or need. If you're spending billions without centering humans, you're wasting your life.

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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast: reactormag.com/the-avengers...

The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.

@grammartable.bsky.social thought you might appreciate this

If I write the word “close,” which do you hear in your mind: close or close?

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Take some time to read my liberatory linguistics article today to celebrate. Some tremendous scholars I love and respect have suggested that I turn it into a whole volume on liberatory linguistics. I just might. So get your papers ready. www.amacad.org/publication/...

Liberatory Linguisticswww.amacad.org While the college population in the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, few studies focus on the goal of linguistic justice in higher education teaching and learning—a critical factor in a...

For anyone who doesn't already know about it, check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social (and thank me later) #Langsky

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Timely and important research

Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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This is pretty good targeting by the Lib Dems in Bermondsey and Old Southwark which has a large Latino community. First time I’ve seen a campaign leaflet in Spanish.

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There is a systemic devaluation of expertise from the Global South when it comes to climate change, ecological devastations, critiques of colonial capitalism, imperialism. My talk integrated interviews of various experts, scientists, activists & Indigenous scholars alongside my analysis. Take a look

New in language and law 🤩 Check out our new blog series, showcasing our network members' latest research 🐦🐦

Catch up with exciting new language and criminal justice research in new Language-on-the-Move post! Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network founders Dr Alex Grey and @lauraskh.bsky.social introduce the work of 3 emerging researchers www.languageonthemove.com/whats-new-in...

What’s new in “Language and Criminal Justice” research?www.languageonthemove.com Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team closely collaborates with the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN). To raise awareness of LLIRN and feature the rese…

"We must acknowledge that people cannot advocate for rights they don’t know they have in the first place" Great to read more about Irene Gotera's Linguistic Justice and other initiatives on @languageonthemove.bsky.social 🐦🐦 www.languageonthemove.com/no-justice-w...

No Justice Without Language Rightswww.languageonthemove.com Editor’s note: In this conversation with Irene Gotera, Founder of Linguistic Justice®, she discusses her work, her global advocacy for language rights, and her overarching perspective for cre…

Just had something really cool and a bit different accepted for publication 🥰 watch this space!

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The new framework involves putting Informational Justice at the top of the process framework.This includes pre-court information, distinguish between legal v procedural information and information v advice, and provide both.

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Krzysztof Kredens introduces this very well attended presentation on the (mis)use of ChatGPT in #ForensicLinguistics casework by Dakota Wing and Marlon Hunt.

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Next up, presentation on "For the Record" project of police-suspect interviews with Kate Haworth and Zoe Adams. How can linguistics offer to improve interview transcriptions, especially given the large variation between police forces? #IAFLL24 #PoliceInterviews #Linguistics

"Whether in terms of attractiveness or repulsiveness, our data highlight the “French exception” in the European migratory landscape. Those who are free to move to France don’t want to, and those who would like to stay can’t"

#NewPublication Is France attractive? Based on 2 statistical comparative observations, we suggest new analytical lens for #migration As countries w similar % of foreigners can treat them differently, we argue for the introduction of a Repulsiveness #Index #Europe metropolitics.org/The-French-E...

The French Exception on the European Migration Scenemetropolitics.org The notion of mass migration to France is regularly mobilized in the country's European Union election campaigns. Using international data, Speranta Dumitru and Ettore Recchi show that, in fact, Franc...

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This will be interesting. David Wright on Tag Questions during cross-examination. #Linguistics #IAFLL24

Major FOMO not being at #IAFLL24 All the best to the organisers and participants! 🐦🐦

So, the 5th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics at Aston University begins with a warm welcome from Nicci MacLeod. #IAFLL24

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📣 Our Call for Papers for the Workshop "Knowledge and Science Communication: The Language of Scientific Jounalism in the past and present" in online!(ÖLT 2024, Innsbruck, 17-19 Dec 2024) #ölt2024 📅 Deadline for the abstract: 15 Sept uibk.ac.at/de/congress/oe…

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@brynnquick.bsky.social has made this fantastic explainer on how to do a systematic literature review. Check it out below! @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social this might be of interest to you

No idea where to start with your systematic literature review? Brynn Quick has created this amazing cheat sheet for novice researchers, for free download from Language on the Move www.languageonthemove.com/systematic-l...

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“This is a moving book that represents the voices of migrants on their challenges and successes across different kinds of boundaries.” (Suresh Canagarajah) Life in a New Language now available for pre-order. Use promo code AAFLYG6 for a discount. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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This cartoon has not been improved upon. August 29, 2016

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This marked perhaps the first time a book on Multilingualism was shared in my small regional law school! Absolutely fabulous new collection. Happy to share our chapter with anyone interested. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Das 11. Linguistik Meetup Berlin-Brandenburg findet am 12. September 2024 an der FU Berlin (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) statt. Linguistik-Studierende (BA, MA, PhD) aus Berlin und Brandenburg können ihre Abstracts bis zum 28. Juli einreichen! Alle Details: www.meetup.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de