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Participant Role Shifting in Minority Language Institutional Interactions: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Telephone Calls as Complex Spaces of Linguistic Non-Understanding
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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
The Interplay between Linguistic and Non-Verbal Communication in an Interpreter-Mediated Main Hearing of a Victim's Testimony
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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