Dreisbach, J L and Dreisbach, S M (2021) Unity in Adversity: Multilingual Crisis Translation and Emergency Linguistics in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Open Public Health Journal, 14 (1). pp. 94-97. ISSN 1874-9445
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Abstract
In this globalised era, technological innovations in mobility and travel brought in international and intercultural contact which historically exposed the world population to diseases of pandemic levels. As we are already living in multilingual and multicultural societies, this contact amongst peoples necessitates the need for multilingual knowledge and educational materials production pertaining to public health measures. As established in recent literature on multilingual crisis translation initiatives from China and the Philippines, this discursive piece proposes that emergency language services should be formally institutionalised in public health organisations, most certainly in crisis prevention, responses, and mitigation. The COVID-19 pandemic expedited the need for such expertise and language experts all over the world are currently proposing to establish a new field in linguistics to tackle public health translation in emergency situations – emergency linguistics.
Affiliation: | Skyline University College |
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SUC Author(s): | Dreisbach, S M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1141-4423 |
All Author(s): | Dreisbach, J L and Dreisbach, S M |
Item Type: | Article |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19, Crisis translation, Emergency linguistics, Multilingualism, Public health, Mitigation |
Subjects: | A Business and Management > AK Health care and delivery |
Divisions: | Skyline University College > School of Business |
Depositing User: | Mr Veeramani Rasu |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2022 14:34 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 14:34 |
URI: | https://research.skylineuniversity.ac.ae/id/eprint/111 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.2174/1874944502114010094 |
Publisher OA policy: | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/37514 |
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