This paper analyses the retrospective narratives of an adult language broker. Language brokering involved not only learning how to translate/interpret language for others, but also understanding the meaning that Spanish and English assumed in society and the ways in which she and her parents were socially positioned. Language brokering was both psychosocial and agentic. The participant had to align her respect for, and protectiveness of, her parents with the disrespect and harsh judgement she sensed from those with whom they sought to communicate in various sites. The paper illuminates the complexity of the processes of developing multilingual practices and identities in their intersectional and relational multisitedness.

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童年语言中介的成人叙述：学习双语意味着什么

本文分析了一位成人语言经纪人的回顾性叙述。语言中介不仅涉及学习如何为他人翻译/解释语言，还包括了解西班牙语和英语在社会中的含义以及她和她父母的社会定位方式。语言中介既是社会心理的，也是代理的。参与者必须将她对父母的尊重和保护与她从不同地点试图与之交流的人那里感受到的不尊重和严厉判断结合起来。本文阐明了在交叉和关系多站点中开发多语言实践和身份的过程的复杂性。