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Profile Information

Affiliation: Project Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University

Contact information: richard.powellnihon-.ac.jp
Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Richard Powell
Researcher number: 30277371
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4290-9015
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901069261337671
researchmap Member ID: 1000225818

External link: https://language-and-rights-in-asia.blogspot.jp

Research Interests

Research Areas

Education

- 2014

Educational linguistics and law, Graduate School of Education, School of Law, University of Melbourne
- 2005

Language Policy, Graduate School of Psychology, Division of Linguistic Sciences, Macquarie University
Sep, 1987 - Sep, 1989

Law, Faculty of Laws, College of Law
Sep, 1985 - Sep, 1986

Political Science, School of Oriental Studies, Political Science Dept., School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
Oct, 1978 - Jun, 1981

History, History, Cambridge University

Awards

Papers

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 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
(Overlaps and contrasts between statutory interpretation and forensic linguistics)

Richard Powell

2023(12号), Dec, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
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 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Judges’ perspectives on Malaysia’s bilingual legal system

Richard Powell, Tiong Guan Saw

Asian Englishes, 24(1) 83-101, Jan 2, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research and the potential of local multilingual law

Richard POWELL

ASEAN Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1, Sep, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Multilingual legal practice and law student internships in Malaysia

Powell, Richard & Saw Tiong Guan

World Englishes, 2021.1, Jan 14, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Sociopolitical origins and legal outcomes of official multilingualism. (Review article )

Richard Powell

The Asian Journal of Law and Society, 7(1) 199-203, Mar, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Time to go naked? Rules and reforms surrounding LGBT people in Japan.

Richard Powell

Australian Journal of Asian Law, 20(1), Nov, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Destruction and Reconstruction in Cinematic Portrayals of Tokyo

Richard Powell

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 32(3) 661-682, Sep 14, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
Language, imagery and ideology in Japanese law and administration. (Editorial.)

Richard Powell

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
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, 32(4) 895-921, Jul 25, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead author
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,, 32(4) 939-969, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
The fall and rise of English in common law

Nihon University College of Economics Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin 84, 84 57-72, Apr, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead author
Unbalanced bilingualism, diglossia and class division in postcolonial law.

International Journal of Legal Discourse, vol.1.2(2016.12) 295-318, Dec, 2016 Peer-reviewedLead author
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, 22(2) 261-267, Dec, 2015 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
(Evidence of Japan’s imperial language policy from its English language newspapers: the case of Shōnan).

Kenkyu Kiyo Research Bulletin, 77(77) 149-179, Jan, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author
Language and religion in Asian texts and contexts (Editorial)

Richard Powell, Maya David

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 229 1-8, Aug, 2014 Peer-reviewedLead author
Language disadvantage in Malaysian litigation and arbitration.

Richard Powell, Azirah Hashim

World Englishes., 30(1) 92-105-105, Jan, 2011 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Terminological creation and language shift in Malaysia's legal system.

Richard Powell

Current Issues in Language Planning (Multilingual Matters, UK), 5(3) 109-130, Dec, 2004 Peer-reviewedLead author
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, 45 17-36, Apr, 2004 Lead author

Major Books and Other Publications

'Research Design'. In 'Getting Started with Research: A Guide to Research Methodology'

Richard Powell (Role: Contributor) (Original Author(s): Jen Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén & Azirah Hashim)

University of Malaya Press., 2021 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

Exploring connections between multilingual law and plurilegalism from the case of Malaysia

Richard Powell

Tashkent Law University Language and Law Symposium, Sep 4, 2024 Invited
English and miscommunication in the digital age.

Richard Powell

UniSZA International Multidisciplinary Conference, Aug 25, 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 14, 2024
Investigating lawyers’ linguistic, discursive and cultural adaptation to cross-jurisdictional practice

Richard Powell

21st AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics World Congress, Aug 13, 2024
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 16, 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 5, 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 25, 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 9, 2022
Multilingual law and its potential for Asian-based contributions to forensic linguistics research.

Richard POWELL

MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug 10, 2022 Invited
The ongoing ‘confusion’ in the Malaysian online news; the corpus way.

Richard POWELL, ZARINA Othman, AZHAR Jaludin

MAAL Asia-Pacific Conference, Aug 10, 2022
‘Ambiguity in Legal Texts and Challenges for the Regulation of Pandemics’

Richard Powell

Santo Tomas International Conference on Forensic Linguistics, Sep 18, 2021 Invited
‘Compliance and complaints in media commentary on Malaysian movement control orders’

Richard Powell

Asian Law and Society Conference 2021, Sep 18, 2021
‘Contested concepts of “indigenous, language” in Malaysia’

Richard Powell & Azirah Hashim

AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée ), Aug 17, 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 27, 2021
Shallow supremacy? The political and judicial discourses of linguistic justice in Malaysia

Richard Powell

Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, Jun 10, 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 28, 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 27, 2020
Language as a facilitator, indicator and inhibitor of national and international legal rights in Malaysia

Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Dec, 2019
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
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

Professional Memberships

Sep, 2016 - Present

Asian Law and Society Association
May, 2009 - Present

Japan Association of Law and Language
Dec, 2008 - Present

Law and Society Association
Jun, 2003 - Present

International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics

Research Projects

A Study onParaphrases of Civil Legal Terms Based on Lay Perception

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2014

OKAWARA Mami, TANAKA Makiro, POWELL Richard, KANEMITSU Hiroyuki, MIYAZAKI Yumi

Other

AMNESTY IN...

1993 - 1993

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

1993 - 1993