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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
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Del Torto, Lisa M. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper explores interpreting in three-generational Italian-English bilingual families as a complex language brokering activity. Recent studies approach non-professional interpreting as language brokering in which bilinguals (often children) interpret for non-bilinguals (adults) in institutional settings (Hall 2004; Valdes 2003). These studies…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Children, Italian, English