Welcome to Episode 74 of Lexis. Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Laura Smith-Khan, Senior Lecturer - School of Law, University of New England, Australia about…<ul><li>How she got into the linguistics of law</li><li>Where and how law and language overlap</li><li>Clarity, accuracy and the power dynamics in legal language</li><li>Migration, borders, refugees and the law</li><li>Assessing ‘credibility’ and some of the processes of refugee law</li><li>Critically assessing media discourses around migration</li></ul>Laura Smith-Khan’s university profile: <a href="https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/law/Dr-Laura-Smith-Khan_Profile">https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/law/Dr-Laura-Smith-Khan_Profile</a>Laura is part of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network - more here: <a href="https://lawandlanguage.org/">Law and Language – Sharing research, news and events related to law and language</a>as well as the Language on the Move research group - blog and podcast <a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/author/laura/">https://www.languageonthemove.com/author/laura/</a> Some of the studies and research mentioned in the show:<a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/legal-literacy-in-a-linguistically-diverse-society/">Legal literacy in a linguistically diverse society – Language on the Move</a> <a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/learning-to-speak-like-a-lawyer/">Learning to speak like a lawyer – Language on the Move</a><a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/trust-and-suspicion-at-the-airport/">Trust and suspicion at the airport – Language on the Move</a><a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/refugee-credibility-assessment-and-the-vanishing-interpreter/">Refugee credibility assessment and the vanishing interpreter – Language on the Move</a> The post we discussed about judges, clarity and distance: <a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/how-judges-think-about-language/">How Judges Think About Language – Language on the Move</a> The Bluey episode mentioned is <a href="https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-3/the-sign/">Bluey Season 3, Episode 49 | The Sign</a> and the episode’s impact on people looking up road rules received attention from the QLD government and the media, eg <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-25/bluey-prompts-conversation-around-rules-and-safety-of-front-seat/103752848">What are the rules around children sitting in the front seat of a car? And is it safe? - ABC News</a> Reading Challenges with lists of recommended books (2025 has yearly links back to 2018):<a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-the-move-reading-challenge-2025/">Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2025 – Language on the Move</a> <a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/category/">Category – Language on the Move</a> (posts organized by topic)<a href="https://www.languageonthemove.com/authors/">Authors – Language on the Move</a> (full list of contributors, each with a short bio and link to posts) Lexis is on Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</a> ContributorsLisa Casey blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/">https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</a> & Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates">Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</a>Dan Clayton blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/">EngLangBlog</a> & Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</a> Jacky Glancey Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey">https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</a>Raj RanaMatthew Butler Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA">https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</a> Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</a>

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