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