WINTER 2025 The Linguist 3
CONTENTS
News & editorial
A JUDGED INDUSTRY . . . . . 5
A look at interpreting in the press
IN THE MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Round-up of the top news stories this quarter
INSIDE PARLIAMENT . . . . . . 7
Update on the work of the cross-party group
Features
LESSONS FROM GRENFELL . 8
Can disaster planners improve language
provision for future tragedies by learning from
communication issues following the fatal fire?
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The Linguist
Editorial Board
Chair K Trotman BA MA DipTrans MCIL
D Butler BA (Hons) (ex officio)
B Hart BA MA PGDip MCIL CL
R Keene BA MA ACIL
A Lawson
K McLaughlin BA PhD FCIL CL FHEA
M Moore BA (ex officio)
L Rana BSBio MSC MD FCIL
A Uribe MSc DPSI MCIL CL
BH Wang PhD FCIL
J Worne (ex officio)
A Zafar BA MA MCIL
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THE LEARNING PILL . . . . . 11
Does language learning support wellbeing,
and what does a healthy class look like?
A TEXTBOOK SHAKE-UP . . 14
How to bring individualised learning into the
classroom with a collaborative approach
SOUND JUDGEMENT? . . . . 16
How value judgements about accents lead
to professional and academic gatekeeping
THE PULL OF HOME . . . . . 18
Learning Syriac to remedy homesickness: how
a language you don't speak can feel like home
THE LANGUAGE QUIZ . . . . 20
Did you follow the language stories of 2025?
PUT A STAMP ON IT 23
Why digital stamps are good for business
A LIFE WITH LANGUAGES . 24
One member's journey in her native Hindi
FUN OF THE FESTIVAL . . . . 25
Q&A with the director of Migration Matters
Reviews
BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
GIFTS FOR LINGUISTS . . . . 28
Pick of the books, films and games of 2025
Opinion & comment
BACK TO NEUTRALITY . . . . 30
How Chinese is reintroducing neutral pronouns
TIME TO TAKE NOTE . . . . . 31
Myth-busting tips to improve your note-taking
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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