{"podcast":{"title":"Language on the Move","slug":"language-on-the-move-6801734","podcast_index_feed_id":6801734,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NBNK2543270255","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b2163a6e-c9a2-11ee-9606-2f97fa81c380/image/LOTM-3000.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":72,"summary":"Language on the Move is a podcast devoted to multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration. Language on the Move aims to disseminate sociolinguistic research to a broad global audience. Language on the Move was co-founded by Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi, and is currently edited by Ingrid Piller. Our team consists of a research group based at Macquarie University and is complemented by contributors from around the world. A full list of our authors is available here. The web developer and designer behind Language on the Move is Marcin Debski.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T18:17:12.697147+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/language-on-the-move-6801734"},"episode":{"title":"Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission","slug":"found-in-translation-many-meanings-on-a-north-australian-mission","published_at":"2026-02-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/language-on-the-move-6801734/found-in-translation-many-meanings-on-a-north-australian-mission","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/language-on-the-move-6801734","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7872379161.mp3?updated=1771917963","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7872379161.mp3?updated=1771917963","summary":"In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission. The conversation explores the distinctive historical context of Australia’s Northern Territory as a location for Christian missionary activity. Tazin and Laura talk about the multiple tensions and elements involved in language interactions between monolingual English-speaking missionaries and multilingual Indigenous communities, against the background of settler colonialism. Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission was published by University of Hawai’i Press in 2018. About the book Found in Translation is a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries and the Anindilyakwa-speaking people of the Groote Eylandt archipelago and how each group used language to influence, evade, or engage with the other in a series of selective “mistranslations.” In particular, this work traces the Angurugu mission from its establishment by the Church Missionary Society in 1943, through Australia’s era of assimilation policy in the 1950s and 1960s, to the introduction of a self-determination policy and bilingual education in 1973. While translation has typically been an instrument of colonization, this book shows that the ambiguities it creates have given Indigenous people opportunities to reinterpret colonization’s position in their lives. Laura Rademaker combines oral history interviews with careful archival research and innovative interdisciplinary findings to present a fresh, cross-cultural per…","meta_description":"In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in Tran…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1621,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/language-on-the-move-6801734/episodes/found-in-translation-many-meanings-on-a-north-australian-mission/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/language-on-the-move-6801734/found-in-translation-many-meanings-on-a-north-australian-mission.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}