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SPRING 2024 The Linguist 3
CONTENTS
News & editorial
GOVT FAILS AFGHANS . . . . 5
IS THE REIGN OF
ENGLISH ENDING? . . . . . . . 6
IN THE MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Round-up of language news in the UK press
INSIDE PARLIAMENT . . . . . . 7
A look at the cross-party group's recent work
Artificial interpreting
EMBRACE THE MACHINE . . 8
Are remote platforms 'betraying' interpreters
by offering AI, or are they still working for us?
THE ETHICS OF AI . . . . . . . . 10
How stakeholders are mitigating ethical issues
to ensure a safe rollout of AI in interpreting
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The Linguist
Editorial Board
Chair K Trotman BA MA DipTrans MCIL
P Baillie LLB MA MCIL
D Butler BA (Hons) (ex officio)
C Fairfoull BA MA ACIL MCIPD AIRP
B Hart BA MA PGDip MCIL CL
J Hughes BA CIOL Student Member
K McLaughlin BA PhD FCIL CL FHEA
M Moore BA (ex officio)
J Oppedisano BA MA DPSI MCIL
E Pavlopoulos LLB MAEd PGCE IoLET Affiliate
L Rana BSBio MSC MD MCIL
BH Wang PhD FCIL
J Worne (ex officio)
A Zafar BA MA CIOL Career Affiliate
The Linguist, formerly
The Incorporated
Linguist, is the official
journal of the Chartered
Institute of Linguists
Features
HOLLY-ANNE WHYTE . . . . . 13
Candid Q&A with a human rights translator
CHANGING MINDS . . . . . . 14
Could a unique outreach project give young
people a new perspective on languages?
A MOTHER'S JUDGEMENT . 16
Dealing with the linguistic and emotional
challenges of working on an infanticide case
WEAR YOUR
CLIENT'S SHOES . . . . . . . . . 18
Why there are no off-the-peg solutions when
transcreating product details for fashion labels
MAKING IT TO PRINT . . . . 20
How Routledge selects its language titles
TEXT TO SPEECH . . . . . . . . 22
Insights into the demands of sight translation
A LIFE WITH LANGUAGES . 25
An interpreter tells her story in Albanian
RESEARCH REVELATIONS . 26
An ambitious study of Indigenous languages
offers clues about the ways languages evolve
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS . 28
How to navigate metaphors and other
culturally embedded devices in religious texts
Reviews
BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Future of Language and Metatranslation
Opinion & comment
THE TEACHER GUIDE . . . . . 31
Could a semi-structured teaching approach
better prepare students for translation practice?
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
IN MY OPINION… . . . . . . . . 33
A plea for the protection of Celtic languages
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