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AUTUMN 2024 The Linguist 3
CONTENTS
News & editorial
LANGUAGES IN STATE . . . . 5
The languages MPs used to take their oaths
INSIDE PARLIAMENT . . . . . . 6
What a new government means for languages
IN THE MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Round-up of this summer's language stories
Features
MEET OUR MEMBERS . . . . . 7
Insightful Q&A with a sports and law specialist
AI: STOP OR GO? . . . . . . . . . 8
Should there be a moratorium on language AI
development? Analysis from four stakeholders
11
The Linguist
Editorial Board
Chair K Trotman BA MA DipTrans MCIL
D Butler BA (Hons) (ex officio)
C Fairfoull BA MA ACIL MCIPD AIRP
B Hart BA MA PGDip MCIL CL
J Hughes BA MA DipTrans ACIL
K McLaughlin BA PhD FCIL CL FHEA
M Moore BA (ex officio)
J Oppedisano BA MA DPSI MCIL
E Pavlopoulos LLB MAEd PGCE
L Rana BSBio MSC MD MCIL
BH Wang PhD FCIL
J Worne (ex officio)
A Zafar BA MA MCIL
The Linguist is the official
journal of the Chartered
Institute of Linguists
VOICES FROM GAZA . . . . . 11
Hear from translators working in extreme
conditions about the challenges they face
ANAM ZAFAR MEETS… . . . 14
Novelist Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi discusses
linguistic hierarchies and the complex
relationships we often have with languages
WHEN RESEARCH FAILS . . 16
How patients are failed when medical research
excludes people with limited skills in English
WORKING WITH TRAUMA . 18
What strategies can interpreters use to avoid
and manage work-related vicarious trauma?
THE URDU TAPESTRY . . . . . 20
Tracing the history, art and poetry of Urdu
in this 'love letter' to the language
HARD HATS AND
STEEL CAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
From noisy machinery to sprawling complexes,
the difficulties of interpreting at factories
TOWARDS
NEUROINCLUSIVITY . . . . . . 24
How neurodivergent people can be supported
in the workplace, and why that's so important
SYSTEM SUPPORT . . . . . . . 26
Inside account from a tech support worker of
her crucial, specialised work in four languages
Reviews
BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Language City and The Language Puzzle
PODCASTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Check out Something Rhymes with Purple
EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Why dance show Patois is one for linguists
Opinion & comment
COVERT COMMUNICATION . 30
Discover the secret 'M language' of Malaysia
HOW TO BUILD A WEBSITE . 32
Tips from an emerging linguistic entrepreneur
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A MEDICAL EMERGENCY . . 33
The risks of using machine translation apps
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