Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting)

ISBN 10: 3030878163 / ISBN 13: 9783030878160

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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1st ed. 2022 edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030878163
• ISBN 13: 9783030878160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.