Comments on: Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

By: Language across three generations of Hani minority women - Language on the Move

Language across three generations of Hani minority women - Language on the Move — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:20:05 +0000

[…] on their research, Yongzhen and her teammates designed a bilingual app inspired by the national emergency language services. Their bilingual translation product has been recommended by the College of Foreign Languages at […]

By: Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue - Language on the Move

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue - Language on the Move — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:08:22 +0000

[…] The Chinese world is highly multilingual and language barriers to accessing public health information are a pressing concern to linguistic minorities – both indigenous and migrant – within China, as well as in the global Chinese diaspora. At the same time, many Chinese governmental agencies, academic institutions, and grassroots groups have been actively responding to the language and communication needs of linguistically diverse populations. […]

By: How are language service providers affected by COVID-19? - Language on the Move

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19? - Language on the Move — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:58:06 +0000

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By: Covid-19 forces us to take linguistic diversity seriously - Language on the Move

Covid-19 forces us to take linguistic diversity seriously - Language on the Move — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:53:57 +0000

[…] by the Chinese state. In the face of the crisis, the monolingual ideology was ditched and within 48 hours, a team of linguists from Beijing Language and Culture University created a Guideboo…. Plans are now underway to include the needs of linguistically diverse populations into all levels […]

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:26:48 +0000

So fantastic to read about the valuable contributions that applied sociolinguists have made to the Covid-19 response in China. I agree with Gegentuul that “emergency linguistics” is a promising emerging speciality – the example shared in this post makes that very clear. Thanks to Prof Li Yuming for sharing this work, and my colleagues Dr Zhang Jie and Dr Li Jia for translating the original article for us.

By: Gegentuul

Gegentuul — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:38:05 +0000

I am quite amazed by the efforts of the governments, institutions, linguists as well as other volunteers who promptly rise to various linguistic tasks in China. Emergency Linguistics is definitely one promising discipline given the linguistic diversity in China!