Tag Archives: Linguistics

Language Research

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Leigh Blount

The linguistic landscape of crisis zones The policy and practice of languages in conflict areas has become an issue of increasing interest to academic researchers, policymakers, and language practitioners over the past five years, an interest at least partially stimulated … Continue reading →

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Language Policy

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Leigh Blount

What has been much less evident in such research has been the existence of institutional markers, policies which recognise the key importance of languages and prepare in advance for the language dimensions of conflict. The general pattern emerging from case … Continue reading →

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The invisibility of language intermediaries

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Leigh Blount

The occlusion of non-military linguists, their apparent absence from policy-making for conflict, is in many ways related to a much more fundamental problem, a classic tendency to ignore the presence of language intermediaries altogether, to deny personal subjectivity to those … Continue reading →

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Sites of transnational conflict

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Leigh Blount

Whilst the setting for all this research, both the detailed case studies and the translation/interpreting scholarship, has largely been one of war and conflict, the fundamental points that are being made are arguably of high relevance to any study of … Continue reading →

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