Languages, Cultures, and Health in a Global City

Translating and Communicating Covid-19 Among London’s Multilingual Communities

AvLutz Marten,Nana Sato-Rossberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This collection examines how linguistically diverse diaspora communities experienced and translated the COVID-19 pandemic in London, exploring nuances of difference across them to better understand how these communities mediate public health discourses in the globalized city.Drawing on scholarship from cultural translation and an emic approach, the volume features rich and varied perspectives on the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic from scholars working and living in over a dozen Asian and African language communities in the city. Building on data from online surveys and face-to-face-interviews with almost 200 community members, the book charts how information about the pandemic was disseminated across these different minority communities and, in turn, how these communities understood and translated it into their own cultural framework and against prevailing public discourses. The volume also looks forward to the recovery process and the needs of these communities, reinforcing the value of a socio-cultural translation approach in better understanding how to support these communities in the wake of global health crises moving forward.This book will be of interest not only to scholars in translation studies, intercultural communication, crisis communication, cultural studies, and post-colonial studies, but also to public health practitioners and community leaders.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032505510

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Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at SOAS University of London. His work focuses on the study of language in its structural, historical, and social aspects, with particular reference to the languages and cultures of Eastern and Southern Africa. He has conducted descriptive, theoretical, and comparative studies with respect to different African languages in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, and Zambia. He is currently involved in collaborative research projects on the study of variation in Swahili, on the description and promotion of the Kenyan Bantu language Kitaveta, and on the cultural translation of COVID-19 in London’s community languages. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and currently serves as the president of the Philological Society.Nana Sato-Rossberg is Professor of Translation Studies. She is a leading scholar in the field, with expertise in Japan and East Asia. She is currently Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies of SOAS. She is also an Executive Council member of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies and the co-founder of the East Asian Translation Studies conference series (since 2014). She is the author of two monographs and five co-edited books in relation to Japan and East Asian Translation Studies. She has worked extensively on Japanese ethnic minority community and the translation of their cultures. She was Principal Investigator of the UKRI/AHRC-funded COVID-19 project Cultural Translation and Interpreting of COVID-19 Risks among London’s Migrant Communities.

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List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Research background and underlying theoretical concepts, 3. Languages of London communities of the study, 4. Historical background of the multilingual communities of the study, 5. Effects of COVID-19 on London’s multilingual communities: Results from our online survey, 6. Language, information, and COVID-19 among London’s diverse communities: Overview of our interview results, 7. Community experiences during the pandemic: Voices from our interviews, 8. The COVID-19 vaccine, 9. Reflection and recovery, 10. Conclusions, References, Index