@inbook{16b80c38ac724306876ac5f5aeb5ec60,
title = "Language learning in times of danger: Narratives of confinamiento/confinement in Spanish - English bilingual online conversations during lockdown",
abstract = "In this paper, we contribute to the study of intercultural pragmatics and, more specifically, the “pragmatics of danger” by exploring how adult participants in an online exchange program with focus on Spanish and English learning talk about the corona virus and the impact the pandemic has in their lives. We focus on the Covid-19 related topics that emerge in their exchanges and we search for keywords and eventual new words and concepts that shed light on people's situation at the time. Our material, consisting of video recordings of participant conversations, is from the month of April 2020, a month into the global lockdown. It therefore provides us with a valuable snapshot of a time characterized by insecurity on how things would evolve and on to what degree the pandemic would disrupt life as we knew it.",
keywords = "English, Spanish, cultural pragmatics, language learning, lockdown, natural semantic metalanguage, online virtual exchange",
author = "Fern{\'a}ndez, \{Susana S.\} and Appel, \{Marie Christine\}",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1075/pbns.346.07fer",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027214959",
series = "Pragmatics and Beyond New Series",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "135--157",
editor = "C. Levinsen and Z. Ye",
booktitle = "Pragmatics and Beyond New Series",
}