POWELL Richard
| College of Economics | Professor |
Researcher Information
Research Keyword
Field Of Study
- Humanities & social sciences, International law, Comparative Law
- Humanities & social sciences, Foreign language education, Foreign language education
- Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Linguistics and Comparative Culture
- Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Socioinguistics
- Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Forensic linguistics
- Humanities & social sciences, Social law, Human rights law
Educational Background
- 2014
University of Melbourne, Graduate School of Education, School of Law, Educational linguistics and law - 2005
Macquarie University, Graduate School of Psychology, Division of Linguistic Sciences, Language Policy - Sep. 1987 - Sep. 1989
College of Law, Faculty of Laws, Law - Sep. 1985 - Sep. 1986
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, School of Oriental Studies, Political Science Dept., Political Science - Oct. 1978 - Jun. 1981
Cambridge University, History, History
Research activity information
Award
Paper
- English in SEA legal education and practice: perspectives from inner, outer and expanding circle contexts and implications for applied linguistics
Richard Powell
World English's (Special Issue on Applied Linguistics in Southeast Asia), Mar. 2025, Refereed, Invited
Lead - (Overlaps and contrasts between statutory interpretation and forensic linguistics)
Richard Powell
月刊 税理, Dec. 2023, Refereed
Lead - Toothless Rhetoric or Strategic Polemic? A Textual and Contextual Analysis of Japan’s Hate Speech Law
Richard Powell
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Dec. 2022, Refereed, Invited
Lead - Judges’ perspectives on Malaysia’s bilingual legal system
Richard Powell; Tiong Guan Saw
Asian Englishes, Jan. 2022, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research and the potential of local multilingual law
Richard POWELL
ASEAN Journal of Applied Linguistics, Sep. 2021, Refereed, Invited
Lead - Multilingual legal practice and law student internships in Malaysia
Powell; Richard & Saw Tiong Guan
World Englishes, Jan. 2021, Refereed
Lead - Sociopolitical origins and legal outcomes of official multilingualism. (Review article )
Richard Powell
The Asian Journal of Law and Society, Mar. 2020, Refereed, Invited
Lead - Time to go naked? Rules and reforms surrounding LGBT people in Japan.
Richard Powell
Australian Journal of Asian Law, Nov. 2019, Refereed, Invited
Lead - Destruction and Reconstruction in Cinematic Portrayals of Tokyo
Richard Powell
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Sep. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Language, imagery and ideology in Japanese law and administration. (Editorial.)
Richard Powell
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Aug. 2019, Refereed
Lead - Images and Narratives of Law and Order in the Manga KOBAN
Richard Powell; Hideyuki Kumaki
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Jul. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - La presse anglophone et la recolonisation linguistique, administrative et juridique de Singapour pendant l’occupation japonaise. (The anglophone press and linguistic, administrative and judicial recolonisation in Singapore under the Japanese occupation
Richard Powell
International Journal of the Semiotics of Law,, 2019, Refereed, Invited - The fall and rise of English in common law
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin 84, Apr. 2017, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Unbalanced bilingualism, diglossia and class division in postcolonial law.
International Journal of Legal Discourse, Dec. 2016, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Speak English or What? Codeswitching and Interpreter Use in New York City Courts (Review article)
Richard Powell
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, Dec. 2015, Refereed, Invited
Lead - (Evidence of Japan’s imperial language policy from its English language newspapers: the case of Shōnan).
パウエル リチャード
Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin, Jan. 2015, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Language and religion in Asian texts and contexts (Editorial)
Richard Powell; Maya David
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Aug. 2014, Refereed
Lead - Language disadvantage in Malaysian litigation and arbitration.
Richard Powell; Azirah Hashim
World Englishes., Jan. 2011, Refereed, Not invited
Corresponding - Terminological creation and language shift in Malaysia's legal system.
Richard Powell
Current Issues in Language Planning (Multilingual Matters, UK), Dec. 2004, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - The rhetorical influence of first-language cultural transfer on second-language writing: contrasting views from Kubota and Hinkel.
Richard Powell
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 45, Apr. 2004, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - The relevance of recent cognitive research to the question of a 'critical age' for second language acquisition.
Richard Powell
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 41, Apr. 2003, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Language planning in Kenya and implications for other multilingual postcolonial polities.
Richard Powell
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo., Apr. 2002, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Language Planning in the British Empire: comparing Pakistan, Malaysia and Kenya.
Richard Powell
Current Issues in Language Planning (Multilingual Matters, UK)., 2002, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Diversity in the face of globalisation: the challenge for ELT.
SPELT Journal (Society of Pakistan English teachers), Oct. 2001, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Questions arising from the use of popular film in law-based ESP and content-EFL courses.
Richard Powell
Perspectives: Journal of English Language Teaching and Teacher Education (Czech Republic), Jan. 2000, Refereed, Not invited
Lead - Mr Sluizer goes to Hollywood and vanishes without a trace: the pitfalls of foreign language film remakes and some pointers for cross-cultural studies
Richard Powell
Bulletin of Seikei University, Jan. 1999, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Considering a Framework in which to examine the role of language laws and policies in former British colonies.
Richard Powell
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo, Oct. 1998, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Answer machine language use: a preliminary investigation into cross-cultural differences.
B. Natusch; R. Powell
Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo 26, Apr. 1998, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - Uses of law as a subject for content-based English-language teaching.
Richard Powell
Oumon Ronsou, Mar. 1995, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead - A Comparison between Japan and England of the Legal Status of Amnesty International and Implications for the Law regarding Non-Profit Public Interest Groups in Each Country
Richard Powell
Seikei University Research Bulletin (Tokyo), Dec. 1994
Books and other publications
- ★'Research Design'. In 'Getting Started with Research: A Guide to Research Methodology'
Richard Powell, Contributor, Jen Allwood; Elisabeth Ahlsén & Azirah Hashim
University of Malaya Press., 2021, Refereed - The impact of English on law in Southeast Asia (Chapter in Moody (ed) Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes
Single work
Oxford University Press, May 2024
9780192855282 - (Progress of Forensic Linguistics in Asia)
橋内武; 堀田秀吾; 法と言語; 法言語学へのいざない, Contributor
Kuroshio, Feb. 2024
9784874249536 - Movement Control Order or “Making Confusing Order”? Discourses of confusion about lockdowns in a Malaysian news portal
Richard Powell; Zarina Othman, Single work, Ikuko Nakane, Claire Maree and Michael C. Ewing (eds.) (in press. 2023), 141-160. Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID: Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian Languages
Leiden University Press, Nov. 2023
9789087284237 - Persuasive or coercive? Cultural and institutional factors behind penalty-free laws in Japan and implications for management of Covid-19.
Single work, In Anne Wagner & Aleksandra Matulewska (eds.) (October, 2023) Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics, 264-281
Edward Elgar, Oct. 2023
9781802207231 - The sun also rises: flying the Japanese flag amid contested national narratives. In Wagner & Marusek (eds) Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique
Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
Springer, Feb. 2021, Refereed
9783030328641 - English in Asian legal systems. In Bolton & Kirkpatrick (eds) Handbook of Asian Englishes.
Richard Powell, Single work, 863-886, Richard Powell
Wilesy Blackwell, Sep. 2020, Refereed
9781118791806 - Language choice in postcolonial law. Lessons from Malaysia’s bilingual system
Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
Springer Nature, Feb. 2020
9789811511738 - Language planning and legal systems (Chapter in Viscont (ed.) Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere
Richard Powell, Single work, pp 83-108, Richard Powell
Chapter in J. Visconti (ed.) Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere: De Gruyter., Aug. 2018, Not refereed
9781614516699 - Rules and unruliness in manga depictions of community police boxes.
Richard Powell; Hideyuki Kumaki, Joint work
Chapter in Giddens, Pearson & Tranter (eds.) Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: from crime fighting robots to duelling pocket monsters. Abingdon: Routledge, Jul. 2018, Not refereed
9781315136134 - Perceptual, cultural and linguistic challenges facing Japan as a site of international arbitration.
Single work
Chapter in Bhatia, Gotti, Azirah Hashim, Koh & Rajoo (eds.) International Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia. Routledge, Jan. 2018, Not refereed
9781138282216 - John Gibbons
Single work
In Chapelle, Carol (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons., Jan. 2013, Not refereed
9781405194730 - English in Southeast Asian Law.
Single work, 241-266.
Chapter in Ee-Ling Low & Azirah Hashim (Eds.) English in Southeast Asia: Features, Policy and Language in Use Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In press, Jan. 2012, Not refereed
9789027249029 - Exploring language choice in Malaysian trials and arbitrations: common aims,complementary methods.
Azirah Hashim; Richard Powell, Joint work, 129-161, AzirChapter in Petersen; Margrethe and Engberg; Jan (eds.) Current Trends in LSP Research: Methods and Aims. ah Hashim
Bern, Switzerland. Peter Lang, Dec. 2011, Not refereed
9783035103588 - Law in Japan, law in the world.
Richartd Powell; 堀田秀悟; Fathima Marikkar, Joint work, 堀田秀悟、Fathima Marikkar
Asahi Press, Oct. 2011, Not refereed
9784255155180 - Touring Britain - language and travel tips.
相澤; 伊藤, Joint work, 相澤、伊藤
Asahi Press, Oct. 2011, Not refereed
9784255155098 - Assessing and inculcating sociopragmatic awareness of joking in Japanese ESL learners.
Single work, 57-89
Chapter in David, Lean & Meng (Eds.) Bridging the Gap Cross-Cultural Communication., Aug. 2011, Not refereed
9834381719 - Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts.
Maya Khemlani DAVID, Joint work, 227-250., Maya Khemlani DAVID
Chapter in Anne Wagner & Cheng Le (Eds.) Exploring Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control. Book series Law, Language and Communication London: Ashgate. With Maya David., Jul. 2011, Not refereed
9781315581620 - Asian Englishes
Single work
Seoul: Prounsoop, Dec. 2010, Not refereed
9788996023968 - Language alternation in Malaysian courtrooms.
Single work, 135-152
Chapter in David, McLellan, Rafik-Galea & Ain (Eds.) Code Switching in Malaysia. Berlin: Peter Lang., Oct. 2009, Not refereed
9783631595640 - The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems.
Single work, 155-177
Chapter in Lucia Siebers and Thomas Hoffmann (Eds.) World Englishes: Problems - Properties - Prospects. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins., Sep. 2009, Not refereed
9789027249005 - Bilingual courtrooms: in the interests of justice?
Single work, 131-159
Chapter in Gibbons & Turrell (Eds.) Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics. Amsterdam:John Benjamins., Oct. 2008, Not refereed
9789027205216 - Motivations for language choice in Malaysian courtrooms.
Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
Kuala Lumpur:University of Malaya Press (Malaysia), Sep. 2008, Not refereed
9789831004586 - Japanese English as an Asian English: by, for and of the Japanese? Recent debate on the interface between EFL and EIL in Japan.
Richard Powell, Single work, 269-282, Richard Powell
Chapter in Azirah & Norizah (Eds.) Varieties of English in South East Asia and Beyond. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press., Oct. 2006, Not refereed - English through the News Media (series)
Joint work, Joint author, editor, with Noriko Itoh, Akira Uesugi and Masami Takahashi
Asahi, 2006
9784255157122 - Viewpoints in Law.
Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
Tokyo:Macmillan Language House, Sep. 1996, Not refereed
4895852350 - Law Today .
Richard Powell, Single work, Richard Powell
Harlow: Longman/Pearson (UK)., Sep. 1993, Not refereed
0582056357
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- Exploring connections between multilingual law and plurilegalism from the case of Malaysia
Richard Powell
Tashkent Law University Language and Law Symposium, Sep. 2024, Invited - English and miscommunication in the digital age.
Richard Powell
UniSZA International Multidisciplinary Conference, Aug. 2024, Invited - Language Policies from Colonial Malaya to Contemporary Malaysia
Richard Powell; Lim Beng Soon; Azirah Hashim
21st AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics Word Congress, Aug. 2024, Not invited - Investigating lawyers’ linguistic, discursive and cultural adaptation to cross-jurisdictional practice
Richard Powell
21st AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics World Congress, Aug. 2024, Not invited - Practitioners across Jurisdictions: Discursive and Linguistic Differences Reported by Malaysian Bijural Lawyers.
Richard Powell
Panel on Lawyers, panel on Lawyers, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Dec. 2023 - Multilingual law – is it worth it? Some answers (and questions) from around Asia. (Invited plenary speech)
Richard Powell
16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Law and Legal Linguistics, Jul. 2023, Invited - Lawyers as cultural, discursive and linguistic mediators: a focus on Malaysia's bijural practitioners.
Richard Powell
Workshop on Language, Religion and Discrimination at 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, May 2023 - Exploring the potential of technology for generating clearer messages and better translations during emergencies: examples from pandemic measures in Japan and Malaysia
Richard Powell
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Dec. 2022 - Multilingual law and its potential for Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research.
Richard POWELL
MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug. 2022, Invited - The ongoing ‘confusion’ in the Malaysian online news; the corpus way.
Richard POWELL; ZARINA Othman; AZHAR Jaludin
MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug. 2022, Not invited - ‘Ambiguity in Legal Texts and Challenges for the Regulation of Pandemics’
Richard Powell
Santo Tomas International Conference on Forensic Linguistics, Sep. 2021, Invited - ‘Compliance and complaints in media commentary on Malaysian movement control orders’
Richard Powell
Asian Law and Society Conference 2021, Sep. 2021, Not invited - ‘Contested concepts of “indigenous, language” in Malaysia’
Richard Powell & Azirah Hashim
AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée ), Aug. 2021, Invited - The Asahi Rising Sun flag: emblem of prosperity and fortune, or genocidal banner?
Richard Powell
15th Conference on Translation, Interpreting,and Comparative Legilinguistics (online), Jun. 2021, Not invited - Shallow supremacy? The political and judicial discourses of linguistic justice in Malaysia
Richard Powell
Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, Jun. 2021, Janny Leung, Invited - Clarity and accessibility in law ,and the challenges of multilingualism
Richard Powell
Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics: Webinar on Managing Transdisciplinary Research on Multilingualism under the Challenges of the Pandemic, Jul. 2020, Invited - The Asahi Rising Sun flag: emblem of prosperity and fortune, or genocidal banner?
Richard Powell
15th Conference on Translation, Interpreting,and Comparative Legilinguistics (online), Jun. 2020, Not invited - Language as a facilitator, indicator and inhibitor of national and international legal rights in Malaysia
Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Dec. 2019, Not invited - How many sexes is both sexes? Legal and lay interpretations of commonplace words in Japan’s marriage equality debates and possible implications for linguists.
Richard Powell
14th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Jul. 2019, Not invited - Language, Legal Education and the Internationalisation of Japanese ADR
Richard Powell
Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Law & Language, Jun. 2019, Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Law & Language, Not invited - Authorised texts and ideological conflict in multilingual postcolonial law.
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, May 2019, Not invited - Multilingualism, multiculturalism and multijuralism in Malaysian law’
Legal Communication in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context, Mar. 2019, Invited - Enactments, judgments, rules and customs: legal and quasi-legal agents of linguistic justice in Malaysia
Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Nov. 2018, Not invited - Political, cultural and linguistic symbolism in postcolonial Bruneian and Tongan law.
Richard Powell
A common quandary for new common law courts: Panel at Law and Society Association Conference, Jun. 2018, Not invited - English-based loanwords in Japan's aging society
23rd IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Ateneo de Manila University., May 2018, Not invited - Language factors in Asian arbitration: comparing Japan and Malaysia
Asian Law and Society Association Conference., Dec. 2017, Not invited - Ideology and pragmatism in bilingual law
13th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Jul. 2017, Not invited - Comparing legal and educational language planning in Southeast Asia
18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jul. 2017, Not invited - The Use and Non-use of Interpreters in Bilingual Legal Systems
International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting, Feb. 2017, Invited - 英契約法の歴史的背景
コモンロー契約法のシンポジウム, Feb. 2017, Invited - Multilingual and multicultural competences in Malaysian law offices
Inaugural Asian Law and Society Association Conference., Sep. 2016, Not invited - Bilingualism, diglossia and class division in postcolonial legal systems’
6th International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse, Aug. 2016, Not invited - Bilingual legal education in Bangladesh’
2nd Asian Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Manila., Jul. 2016, Not invited - The role of education in Malaysian bilingual law
International Conference on Language Policy and Multilingual Education, Myanmar Ministry of Education, Mandalay University., Feb. 2016, Not invited - One country, two jurisdictions: comparing language policy and practice in East and West Malaysian law.
18th ESEA (English of South East Asia) International Conference., Nov. 2015, Not invited - User- vs. use-orientated language in the legal systems of Fiji and Tonga
21st IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference., Oct. 2015, Not invited - Challenges for bilingual legal education: evidence from a Malaysian law faculty.
Richard Powell; Chew Li Hua
12th Biennial IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Conference., Jul. 2015, Not invited - Vernacularisation and lexical innovation in postcolonial Asian law.
10th Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics., Jun. 2015, Not invited - Teaching, researching and living bilingualism.
Seminar on Research Development and Communication Skills, National University of Laos, Vientiane, Apr. 2015, Invited - Internationalisation of higher education: African students in Malaysia and comparisons with Japan.
Richard Powell; Nurjaanah Chew Li Hua; Magesan Ayavoo; Mogana Sunthari Subramaniam; Seyed Nasser Yazdi; Cecilia Tong and Lee Luan Ng
2nd AFRASO Conference on African-Asian Encounters., Mar. 2015, Not invited - (Asia’s common law lawyers and the language-based class divisions)
法と言語学会第6回年次会, Dec. 2014, Not invited - Courtroom trials and ADR in Malaysia: methodological issues.
Richard Powell. Azirah Hashim
Panel on ‘Making Applied Linguistics Matter: Opportunities for Engaging with Professional Practice’. 17th AILA World Conference of Applied Linguistics., Aug. 2014, Not invited - Communication skills of Malaysian lawyers: falling standards, or changing standards?
17th ESEA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, Nov. 2013, Not invited - Language policy and practice in civil and Syariah law courts in Malaysia.
Azirah Hashim; Richard Powell
International Association of Forensic Linguists 11th Biennial Conference, Jun. 2013, Not invited - Language reform and judicial transparency: Asian legal systems as sites of linguistic, cultural and ideological conflict.
13th IALL (International Conference on Linguistic Law), Chiangmai, Thailand., Dec. 2012, Not invited - Legal vernacularisation and access to justice.
IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Jul. 2012, Not invited - Motivations for and implications of changing the language of the law: lessons from Malaysia.
Panel on 'Language policy and legal decision-making' , Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Honolulu HI., Jun. 2012, Not invited - Comparing language policy and practice in Malaysia’s civil and syariah law courts.
Azirah Hashim
International Conference of the Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Mar. 2012, Not invited - English or Malay or both? Comparing language policy and practice in the courts of East and West Malaysia.
ESEA (English in Southeast Asia) 16th International Conference, Sanata Dharma University, Jogyakarta, Indonesia., Dec. 2011, Not invited - Language contact in legal contexts: comparing bilingual discourse in Malaysian common law, syariah and arbitration cases.
Azirah Hashim
IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) 17th International Conference, Monash University, Melbourne., Nov. 2011, Not invited - Language planning as a means of ameliorating language disadvantage before the law. An international comparison of postcolonial initiatives
Symposium on Language, Law and Society, University of Malaya, Oct. 2011, Not invited - Comparing language policy and discourse management in Malaysian syariah and common law courts.
Azirah Hashim.
East Asian Law and Society Conference, Seoul., Sep. 2011, Not invited - Style-switching and code-switching in arbitral and adversarial interactions: a Malaysian perspective.
Azirah Hashim.
Panel on ‘Interdiscursive colonization of arbitration practices’. AILA 16th World Conference of Applied Linguistics, Beijing., Aug. 2011, Not invited - A comparison of questioning, turn-taking and code-switching in Malaysian syariah and common law courts.
Richard Powell; Azirah Hashim
International Association of Forensic Linguists 10th Biennial Conference, Aston, UK., Jul. 2011, Not invited - Quotation as a trigger for code-switching in Malaysian courtrooms.
Panel on ‘Quoting from the text file:Intertextual practices in courtroom discourse’. 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester., Jul. 2011, Not invited - Challenges facing the construction of a vernacular legal system in Timor Leste/Timor Lorosae.
Panel on ‘Language shift in postcolonial law: comparing East Asian policies and practices. Law and Society Annual Conference, San Francisco., Jun. 2011, Not invited - Language policy and practice in Timor Leste’s emergent judicial system.
15th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, University of Macau., Dec. 2010, Not invited - Forensic linguistics in (a) criminal and (b) civil cases.
Symposium on Language and the Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Nov. 2010, Not invited - Language alternation in postcolonial common law courtrooms.
Panel on ‘Leaking Languages: Multilingual language use in professional contexts’, International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2010, Not invited - Supporting bilingual professionals in Asian legal systems.
International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2010, Not invited - Media Debate and Private Discourse on Language Policy in Malaysian Law.
Symposium on ‘Public and Private Discourses in Multilingual Malaysia’, Conference of the International Communication Association., Jun. 2010, Not invited - Managing language disadvantage in multilingual contexts: comparing policy and practice in Malaysian litigation and ADR.
Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, University of Hong Kong., Feb. 2010, Not invited - Questioning in law: a comparison of courtrooms and arbitrations.
Azirah Hashim
VIII International Roundtable on the Semiotics of Law, City University, Hong Kong. (Co-presented with Azirah Hashim.), Dec. 2009, Not invited - Comparing language policies in Asian postcolonial legal systems.
第一回法と言語学会年次会, Dec. 2009, Not invited - Lexical evidence of Japanese military, political, sociocultural and educational policies in the wartime English-language press.
14th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines., Nov. 2009, Not invited - English and the vernaculars in English-based legal systems: from colonisation to cohabitation.
15th International Association of World Englishes,, Oct. 2009, Not invited - A comparison of language use in adversarial and arbitral contexts in Malaysia.
Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
XVII European Symposium on LSP., Aug. 2009, Not invited - Language Policy, Language Choice and Language Alternation in Conflict Resolution: Comparing Adversarial and Arbitral Discourse in Multilingual Malaysia.
Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Jul. 2009, Not invited - ADR in multilingual contexts: language policy and language choice in Malaysian mediation and arbitration.
Law and Society Association International Conference, Denver, USA., May 2009, Not invited - Linguistic and cultural barriers to justice: comparing the responses of the Japanese and Malaysian legal systems to the challenges of globalisation.
SoLLs. INTEC International Conference, Putrajaya, Malaysia., May 2009, Invited - Asian newspaper Englishes:comparing local lexis in outer and expanding circle contexts.
M. David & F. Dumanig; University of Malaya.
International Association of World Englishes, Hong Kong., Dec. 2008, Not invited - Language policy and code choice in conflict resolution: comparing adversarial and arbitral contexts.
Dr Azirah Hashim. University of Malaya.
International Conference on Forensic Linguistics, China Association of Forensic Linguistics, Guangzhou., Nov. 2008, Not invited - The impact of differential cultural, linguistics and discursive constraints on commercial arbitration in Malaysia.
Dr Azirah Hashim; University Malaya.
International Workshop: Linguistic and Discursive Aspects of International Arbitration, University of Milan, Italy., Sep. 2008, Not invited - Adversarial and arbitral discourses in Malaysian conflict resolution.
Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
Conference on Language and Law. Dubrovnik, Croatia., Sep. 2008, Not invited - What can we learn from bilingual legal systems?
4th Symposium of Japan Law and Language Society., Jun. 2008, Not invited - Language choice and language alternation in Malaysian courtrooms.
Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada., Jun. 2008, Not invited - Bilingual legal systems: how unusual is the Malaysian case?
Conference on Multiculturalism and Law, University of Malaya, May 2008, Not invited - The discourse of arbitration practice in Malaysia.
Dr Azirah Hashim; University of Malaya.
12th EASA (English in Southeast Asia) Conference, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand., Dec. 2007, Not invited - The shifting roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems.
Symposium on Legal Discourse and Forensic Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Nov. 2007, Not invited - Malaysian language policy – from the classroom to the courtroom.
2nd International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, Waikato University, New Zealand., Nov. 2007, Not invited - English in Southeast Asian legal systems: convergent practices and divergent cultures.
13th IAWE (International Association for World Englishes) Conference, Regensburg University, Germany., Oct. 2007, Not invited - The role of English in Malaysian law and evidence for a distinctive Malaysian English legal register.
Richard Powell
International Symposium on Malaysian English Language and Literature, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur., Jul. 2006, Not invited - English in Malaysian courtrooms: a help or a hindrance to the evolution of the Malay legal register?
Richard Powell
10th EASA (English in South East Asia) Conference, University of Brunei., Dec. 2005, Not invited - Language policy in the ELT classroom: reviewing the possibilities for bilingual teaching and reflecting on the need for flexible planning.
SPELT International Conference, Karachi, Pakistan., Sep. 2005, Not invited - Motivations for codeswitching in Malaysian courtrooms.
Richard Powell
IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) Conference, Cardiff University, U.K., Jul. 2005, Not invited - Corpus planning and language shift in Malaysian law.
Richard Powell
Asialex (Asian Lexicography) International Conference, Singapore., Jun. 2005, Not invited - English of, for and by the Japanese? Recent debate on the interface between EFL and EIL in Japan.
Richard Powell
ESEA (Englishes of South East Asia), University of Malaya., Nov. 2004, Not invited - International intelligibility vs. local identity in the Asia Pacific: the ESL-EFL divide.
Richard Powell
East-West Center EWC-EWCA Conference, Nihon University,Tokyo., Aug. 2004, Not invited - Constraints on language choice in postcolonial legal systems: comparing Kenya and Malaysia.
Maya Khemlani David; Richard Powell.
Language, Law and Life Symposium, 13th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Lucknow, India., Dec. 2003, Not invited - Multiple-choice discourse-completion questionnaires for assessing sociopragmatic awareness of joking.
Richard Powell
JALT PAN-SIG Conference, Kyoto., May 2003, Not invited - Colonisers colonised: English Fiction on Film.
Richard Powell (Symposium members: G. Law; N. Morita; B. Natusch and R. Powell).
English Fiction on Film Symposium, Japan English Literature Society, Tokyo., May 2001, Not invited - Language planning in Kenya and Malaysia.
SPELT International Conference, Karachi, Pakistan., Oct. 2000, Not invited - Angry men and argumentative women: the pros and cons of using film to depict the common law jury system.
Richard Powell
LSP Forum, Charles University, Prague., Sep. 1999, Not invited - ESP and cross-cultural studies for law students.
1st International ATECR Conference, Prague., Sep. 1998, Not invited - Performing vs Presenting in Voice-Mail and Pager Protocol.
R. Powell; B. Natusch
6th International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France., Jul. 1998, Not invited - Crime in the classroom: using film and TV images of law and order in cross-culural studies.
Third Conference of the Association of Language Teachers of the Czech Republic, Kromeris., Sep. 1997, Not invited
