Jurnal Arbitrer (Vol. 13 No. 2, 2026) features eight empirical studies showcasing diverse methodological approaches across contemporary applied linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and academic discourse analysis, with contributions from authors based in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. This issue spans a broad spectrum of research domains, including EFL classroom dynamics comparing digital and physical settings, corpus-based health communication analyzing mental health discourse on social media, multimodal eye-tracking studies on generational attention, and digital political activism through hashtag analysis. Additionally, the collection covers business sociolinguistics and translanguaging in SME interactions, ethnolinguistics exploring the intersection of traditional oral taboos and public health, and genre analysis evaluating rhetorical structures in academic publication sections.