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Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis: Language Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Piller, Ingrid, Zhang, Jie, Li, Jia

“…Multilingual crisis communication has emerged as a global challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global public health communication is characterized by the…”
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Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in Abu Dhabi's Linguistic Landscape during the COVID-19 Period by Hopkyns, Sarah, van den Hoven, Melanie

“…In Abu Dhabi, multilingualism amongst its highly diverse population is typical. However, with Arabic as the official language and English as the lingua franca,…”
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Peripheral Multilingual Scholars Confronting Epistemic Exclusion in Global Academic Knowledge Production: A Positive Case Study by Piller, Ingrid, Zhang, Jie, Li, Jia

“…The decolonization of knowledge is increasingly high on the agenda of applied and sociolinguistics. This article contributes to this agenda by examining how…”
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Managing Heritage Language Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Chinese, Italian and Pakistani Urdu-Speaking Families in the UK by Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan, La Morgia, Francesca

“…Drawing on theories of family language policy and literacy environment, this inquiry explores and describes how family language policy is managed through…”
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Diaspora Micro-Influencers and COVID-19 Communication on Social Media: The Case of Chinese-Speaking YouTube Vloggers by Zhang, Leticia-Tian, Zhao, Sumin

“…Diaspora vloggers--migrants who produce video blogs in the language of their home countries for a transnational diaspora community--have been a largely…”
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Laboring to Communicate: Use of Migrant Languages in COVID-19 Awareness Campaign in Qatar by Ahmad, Rizwan, Hillman, Sara

“…This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar's government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body…”
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Staying Connected during COVID-19: The Social and Communicative Role of an Ethnic Online Community of Chinese International Students in South Korea by Jang, In Chull, Choi, Lee Jin

“…As the public health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving globally, many linguistic minorities are struggling to obtain accurate and timely…”
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Why Linguistic Entrepreneurship? by De Costa, Peter I, Park, Joseph Sung-Yul, Wee, Lionel

“…This introduction builds on De Costa et al.'s (2016], [2019) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship, which is defined as "the act of aligning with the moral…”
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Multilingual Communication Experiences of International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Li, Jia, Xie, Ping, Ai, Bin, Li, Lisheng

“…While an increasing literature on multilingualism addresses the key role of language in access to social resources, including crisis communication, little…”
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The Utilisation of Translanguaging for Learning and Teaching in Multilingual Primary Classrooms by Omidire, Margaret Funke, Ayob, Sameera

“…This article reports on the outcome of utilising a multilingual strategy that promotes translanguaging to support primary grade learners and the enablers and…”
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Providing Multilingual Logistics Communication in COVID-19 Disaster Relief by Zhang, Jie, Wu, Yuqin

“…Translation is an important means of enabling access to information in an emergency response. Increasingly, volunteer translators have been using social media…”
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Public Health Messages about COVID-19 Prevention in Multilingual Taiwan by Chen, Chun-Mei

“…In this paper, I explore multilingual preventative public health messages against the spread of COVID-19 in Taiwan between January and April 2020. Based on…”
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Children's Use of English as Lingua Franca in Swedish Preschools by Larsson, Karolina, Björk-Willén, Polly, Haraldsson, Katarina, Hansson, Kristina

“…This paper highlights a current phenomenon reported from preschools placed in multilingual areas in Sweden, namely that some preschoolers with mutually…”
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Countering COVID-19-Related Anti-Chinese Racism with Translanguaged Swearing on Social Media by Zhu, Hongqiang

“…The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a spectacular rise in social media communication and an unprecedented avalanche of global conversation…”
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"I Want Her to Be Able to Think in English": Challenges to Heritage Language Maintenance in a Monolingual Society by Lising, Loy

“…Filipino migrants are the fifth largest migrant community in Australia. Filipino migration to the country has been driven by socioeconomic and political…”
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Managing a Discourse of Reporting: The Complex Composing of an Asylum Narrative by Wadensjö, Cecilia, Rehnberg, Hanna Sofia, Nikolaidou, Zoe

“…The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the presence of an emerging written record may affect the content of an asylum narrative, based on which a decision…”
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The Role of Social Networks in Academic Discourse Socialization: Insights from Degree-Seeking Multilingual International Students in China by Li, Wendong, Gong, Yang

“…This study adopted a social network perspective to explore the academic discourse socialization experiences of eight degree-seeking multilingual international…”
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From Garbage to COVID-19: Theorizing 'Multilingual Commanding Urgency' in the Linguistic Landscape by Chesnut, Michael, Curran, Nathaniel Ming, Kim, Sungwoo

“…Across the globe signage which conveys directives regarding appropriate behavior in public, such as 'Do Not Enter' signs, is made multilingual in ways that…”
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Hesitant versus Confident Family Language Policy: A Case of Two Single-Parent Families in Finland by Vorobeva, Polina

“…During the past decade, the field of family language policy has broadened its scope and turned its attention to diverse family configurations in versatile…”
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Language Proficiency and Use of Interpreters/Translators in Fieldwork: A Survey of US-Based Anthropologists and Sociologists by Sepielak, Katarzyna, Wladyka, Dawid, Yaworsky, William

“…The proficiency in vernacular has long been a methodological ethos pervasive among field researchers and--despite new dynamics of fieldwork--still overshadows…”
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