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Angelelli, Claudia V. and Federica Ceccoli. 2023. Communication in child language brokering: role expectation and role performance. Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) 18 (2) : 167–190.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/tis

Abstract

Child Language Brokering (CLB) refers to the mediation and translation activities performed by bi/multilingual children and adolescents for their peers, family members, and/or other people belonging to their linguistic community who may not be proficient enough to communicate in the societal language. Since child language brokers engage in interpreted communicative events and implement communicative strategies, one interesting but also controversial area of CLB is the communicative role children play and the expectations of other parties about that role. This paper examines frequent communication strategies implemented by a child language broker and studies if/how they meet the other parties’ expectations. Specifically, two child language brokering strategies are examined: replacement of a monolingual interlocutor and summarizing of the monolingual interlocutors’ statements. The authors also discuss child language brokers’ roles and their alignment with adults’ expectations, an innovative focus that merits deeper discussion.
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