Full Description
This collection advocates 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 in 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 proposes 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 20 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.
Contents
Table of Contents
1. Are We All in This Together?
Piotr Blumczynski and Steven Wilson (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
PART I: COVID-19 and the Global Construction of Language
2. Worldmaking in the Time of COVID-19: The Challenge of the Local and the Global
Catherine Boyle and Renata Brandão (King's College London, UK)
3. SARS-CoV-2 and Discursive Inoculation in France: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
Loïc Bourdeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) and V. Hunter Capps (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
4. War Metaphors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Persuasion and Manipulation
Patrizia Piredda (University of Oxford, UK)
5. Prophylactic Nationalism: COVID-19 in Thai Public Health Discourse
Wanrug Suwanwattana (Thammasat University, Thailand)
6. COVID-19 as a Foreign Language: How France Learned the Language of the Pandemic
Emilie Garrigou-Kempton (Pomona College, California, USA)
PART II: Translating and Communicating COVID-19
7. Localising Science News Flows in a Global Pandemic: Translational Sourcing Practices in Flemish Reporting on COVID-19 Vaccine Studies
Elisa Nelissen and Jack McMartin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
8. Community Trust in Translations of Official COVID-19 Communications in Australia: An Ethical Dilemma Between Academics and News Media
Anthony Pym, Maria Karidakis, John Hajek, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Riccardo Amorati (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Bei Hu (National University of Singapore)
9. Risk and Crisis Communication during COVID-19 in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Communities: A Scoping Review of the Available Evidence
Demi Krystallidou and Sabine Braun (University of Surrey, UK)
10. A Lockdown by Any Other Name: Populist Rhetoric as a Communication Strategy for COVID-19 in Duterte's Philippines
Marlon James Sales (University of Michigan, USA)
11. Prophylactic Language Use: The Case of Deaf Signers in England and Their (Lack of) Access to Government Information during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jemina Napier and Robert Adam (Herriot-Watt University, UK)
12. A Pandemic Accompanied by an Infodemic: How Do Deaf Signers in Flanders Make Informed Decisions? A Preliminary Small-scale Study
Jorn Rijckaert and Karolien Gebruers (Belgium)
PART III: Translational Cultural Responses to COVID-19
13. The Visual Language of COVID-19: Narrative, Data, and Emotion in Online Health Communications
Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
14. Reading COVID-19 through Dante: A Literature-Based, Bilingual, and Translational Approach to Making Sense of the Pandemic
Beatrice Sica (University College London, UK)
15. COVID-19 Bandes dessinées: Reframing Medical Heroism in French-Language Graphic Novels
Steven Wilson (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
16. Translational Futures: Notes on Ecology and Translation from the COVID-19 Crisis
Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford, UK)
List of Contributors
