Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic

ISBN-13: 9783030878191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 323 str.

Federico Marco Federici

Opis

This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited language proficiency of the main language(s) in which information is disseminated exposed people to additional risks, and the contributors analyse risk communication plans and strategies used throughout the world to communicate measures through translation and interpreting. They show that a political willingness to understand the role of language in public health could lead local and national measures to success, sampling approaches from across four continents. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare translation and interpreting, sociolinguistics and crisis communication, as well as practitioners of risk and crisis communication and professional translators and interpreters.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Translating Health Risks: Language as a Social Determinant of Health

Part I: Terminologies and Narratives

Chapter 2: Military Framing of Health Threats: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Case Study

Chapter 3: Implications of Linguistic Hegemony in Translating Health Materials: COVID-19 Information in Arabic in Australia

Chapter 4: Translating the COVID-19 Pandemic across Languages and Cultures: the Case of Argentina

Part II: Translating COVID-19 Credibility, Trust, Reliability

Chapter 5: Translation Accuracy in the Indonesian Translation of the COVID-19 Guidebook: Understanding the Relation between Medical Translation, Reception, and Risk

Chapter 6: Credibility in Risk Communication: Oman’s Official Arabic COVID-19 Risk Communication and Its English Translation

Chapter 7: Translation as an (Ethical) Intervention? Building Trust in Healthcare Crisis Communication

Part III: Health and Safety in Risk Communication

Chapter 8: Health and Safety Discourse in Polish and English: A Pragmalinguistic Perspective of COVID-19 Communication

Chapter 9: Risk and Safety on Cruise Ships: Communicative Strategies for COVID-19

Part IV: Communities and Translation

Chapter 10: Managing Communication in Public Health: Risk Perception in Crisis Settings

Chapter 11: Citizen Translators’ ‘Imagined Community’ Engagement in Crisis Communication

O autorze

Federico Marco Federici is Professor of Intercultural Crisis Communication at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK. His research focuses on translators and interpreters as intercultural mediators, online news translation, and the study of translation in crises.

Blurb

This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited language proficiency of the main language(s) in which information is disseminated exposed people to additional risks, and the contributors analyse risk communication plans and strategies used throughout the world to communicate measures through translation and interpreting. They show that a political willingness to understand the role of language in public health could lead local and national measures to success, sampling approaches from across four continents. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare translation and interpreting, sociolinguistics and crisis communication, as well as practitioners of risk and crisis communication and professional translators and interpreters.

Federico Marco Federici is Professor of Intercultural Crisis Communication at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK. His research focuses on translators and interpreters as intercultural mediators, online news translation, and the study of translation in crises.