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Countering COVID-19-Related Anti-Chinese Racism with Translanguaged Swearing on Social Media
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Zhu, Hongqiang – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a spectacular rise in social media communication and an unprecedented avalanche of global conversation. This paper traces the emergence of the racist term "Chinese virus" used by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the Western social media platform Twitter and its…
Descriptors: Prevention, Racial Bias, Language Usage, Chinese