Vanessa Piccoli
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vanessa Piccoli is involved.
Articles
2022 Plurilingualism, multimodality and machine translation in medical consultations: A case study Tangible translation: Migration and materiality, Ciribuco, Andrea and Anne O’Connor (eds.), pp. 42–65 | Article
This contribution deals with the use of Google Translate as one among many resources that participants mobilize to overcome the language barrier in plurilingual medical consultations. It is grounded on a two-hour interaction involving a family of Albanian asylum seekers newly arrived in France… read more
2022 Laughing at English: The lingua franca at the interface between local-interactional resistance and cultural-societal pressure Language and Dialogue 12:3, pp. 360–382 | Article
This contribution explores the stances of speakers of Romance languages towards the use of English as a lingua franca in a business context. Grounding on an audio-visual corpus collected in a wine fair in France, the analysis focuses on three extracts where participants comment in a playful way… read more