Language and globalization revisited: Life from the periphery in COVID-19

• Autores: Jie Dong
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 267-268, 2021, págs. 105-110
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This short paper discusses language and globalization in the context of COVID-19. The pandemic has important impacts on people across the globe, and in particular the absence of face-to-face interaction results in new forms of communication and may lead to new ways of language change. This paper revisits sociolinguistics and globalization, and discusses challenges brought about by COVID-19 and its containment measures. The pandemic generates particularly discourses, especially from those who are affected the most. This paper includes a vignette of such discourses to show that mobility and inequality remain key issues in the current stage of globalization.