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Romeo De Timmerman; Anne-Sophie Bafort; Mieke Vandenbroucke; Stef Slembrouck – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of collecting and disseminating publicly relevant health information from and to lay audiences to combat global health crises. In Flanders, Belgium, reaching linguistic minority groups within this context largely depended on government-mandated contact tracing through telephone interactions,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Telecommunications
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Simo Määttä; Tuija Kinnunen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article examines verbal and non-verbal communication between the interpreter and the injured party in a video-recorded main hearing of a criminal matter at a court of first instance in Finland. The language of the court was Finnish and the interpreter and injured party communicated in French, the interpreter's B language and the injured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courts, Translation, Speech Communication
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Haimovich, Gregory; Márquez Mora, Herlinda – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This paper is based on the data collected during fieldwork in the northern part of Mexico's state of Puebla in 2018-2019. During that period, there was a need to gather information that would serve as a starting point for the participatory-action research project in San Miguel Tenango, a village where the majority of people speak Nahuatl as their…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Native Language, Participatory Research, Action Research