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Title The languages of COVID-19 : translational and multilingual perspectives on global healthcare / edited by Piotr Blumczynski and Steven Wilson
Published Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in health humanities
Routledge studies in literature and health humanities.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Are We All in This Together? -- Part I COVID-19 and the Global Construction of Language -- Chapter 2 Worldmaking in the Time of COVID-19: The Challenge of the Local and the Global -- Chapter 3 SARS-CoV-2 and Discursive Inoculation in France: Lessons from HIV/AIDS -- Chapter 4 War Metaphors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Persuasion and Manipulation -- Chapter 5 Prophylactic Nationalism: COVID-19 in Thai Public Health Discourse -- Chapter 6 COVID-19 as a Foreign Language: How France Learned the Language of the Pandemic -- Part II Translating and Communicating COVID-19 -- Chapter 7 Localising Science News Flows in a Global Pandemic: Translational Sourcing Practices in Flemish Reporting on COVID-19 Vaccine Studies -- Chapter 8 Community Trust in Translations of Official COVID-19 Communications in Australia: An Ethical Dilemma Between Academics and News Media -- Chapter 9 Risk and Crisis Communication during COVID-19 in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Communities: A Scoping Review of the Available Evidence -- Chapter 10 A Lockdown by Any Other Name: Populist Rhetoric as a Communication Strategy for COVID-19 in Duterte's Philippines -- Chapter 11 Prophylactic Language Use: The Case of Deaf Signers in England and Their (Lack of) Access to Government Information during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 12 A Pandemic Accompanied by an Infodemic: How Do Deaf Signers in Flanders Make Informed Decisions? A Preliminary Small-scale Study -- Part III Translational Cultural Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 13 The Visual Language of COVID-19: Narrative, Data and Emotion in Online Health Communications -- Chapter 14 Reading COVID-19 through Dante: A Literature-Based, Bilingual and Translational Approach to Making Sense of the Pandemic
Chapter 15 COVID-19 Bandes Dessinées: Reframing Medical Heroism in French-Language Graphic Novels -- Chapter 16 Translational Futures: Notes on Ecology and Translation from the COVID-19 Crisis -- Index
Summary "This collection advocates for languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, this volume is bound by a common thread stressing the importance of linguistic sensitivity, (inter)cultural knowledge and translational mediation on the frontline response to COVID-19. Featuring contributors from around the world and reflecting on the language used to frame COVID-19 in diverse cultural contexts of the Global North and Global South, the book argues that paying attention to the transmission of ideas, ideologies, narratives, and history through processes of translation results in a broadening of social, cultural and medical understandings of COVID-19. Spanning nearly twenty signed and spoken languages, the volume argues that only in going beyond an Anglophone perspective can we better understand the cultural, social and political facets of the pandemic and, in turn, produce a comprehensive efficient global response to disease management. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, modern languages, applied linguistics, cultural studies, Deaf studies, intercultural communication, and medical humanities"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec 1st, 2022)
Subject Medicine -- Translating
COVID-19 (Disease)
Translating and interpreting
Language and culture
COVID-19 (Disease)
Language and culture.
Medicine -- Translating.
Translating and interpreting.
Form Electronic book
Author Blumczynski, Piotr, editor
Wilson, Steven (French studies), editor
LC no. 2022022371
ISBN 9781003267843
100326784X
9781000777857
1000777855
9781000778137
1000778134