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Languages, Cultures, and Health in a Global City: Translating and Communicating Covid-19 Among London's Multilingual Communities

by Lutz Marten , Nana Sato-Rossberg
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032505510
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 188
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 445 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

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.

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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