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dc.contributor.authorEades, Dianaen
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-28T13:56:00Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.citationCurrent Anthropology, 50(4), p. 427-428en
dc.identifier.issn1537-5382en
dc.identifier.issn0011-3204en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8917-
dc.description.abstractBlommaert's article tells a shocking story of two of the worst injustices that an individual can experience. The Rwandan asylum seeker Joseph suffered prolonged abuse and torture in his own country as a child, only to be refused in the United Kingdom the protection from persecution that is supposed to be provided according to international human rights law. Blommaert gives us much more than a shocking story; his analysis of "modernist reactions to postmodern realities" is both strikingly simple and powerfully rich and reaches far wider than this individual's story. As Blommaert says, it would be "far too easy to rave about the ignorance or absurdity" displayed by the British government in their assessment of Joseph's story. What Blommaert provides is an understanding of problematic language ideologies that facilitate such denials of human rights, with his analysis of how "anomalous frames for interpreting human behavior ... are used as instruments of power and control in a world in which more and more people no longer correspond to the categories of such frames." The United Kingdom is among a large group of industrialized nations who take this modernist approach, using asylum seekers' speech as some kind of diagnostic for assessing the truth of their claims of origin. In the linguistics literature, this approach is called LADO, for language analysis in the determination of origin. LADO is currently being practiced by some linguists, as well as many "native speakers" without linguistic training. And it is being described, critiqued, debated, and defended within linguistic circles, particularly at conferences and workshops of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and the International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics and in several linguistics publications.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Anthropologyen
dc.titleComment on Jan Blommaert's 'Language, Asylum, and the National Order'en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/600131en
dc.subject.keywordsAccess to Justiceen
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)en
dc.subject.keywordsSocial and Cultural Anthropologyen
local.contributor.firstnameDianaen
local.subject.for2008180102 Access to Justiceen
local.subject.for2008200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)en
local.subject.for2008160104 Social and Cultural Anthropologyen
local.subject.seo2008940406 Legal Processesen
local.subject.seo2008950201 Communication Across Languages and Cultureen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Psychologyen
local.profile.emaildeades2@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20110309-17339en
local.publisher.placeUnited States of Americaen
local.format.startpage427en
local.format.endpage428en
local.identifier.volume50en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.contributor.lastnameEadesen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:deades2en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:9107en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleComment on Jan Blommaert's 'Language, Asylum, and the National Order'en
local.output.categorydescriptionC2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorEades, Dianaen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2009en
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