This collection advocates for 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.

Table of Contents1. 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 Language2. Worldmaking in the Time of COVID-19: The Challenge of the Local and the GlobalCatherine Boyle and Renata Brandão (King’s College London, UK)3. SARS-CoV-2 and Discursive Inoculation in France: Lessons from HIV/AIDSLoïc Bourdeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) and V. Hunter Capps (SUNY Buffalo, USA)4. War Metaphors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Persuasion and ManipulationPatrizia Piredda (University of Oxford, UK)5. Prophylactic Nationalism: COVID-19 in Thai Public Health DiscourseWanrug Suwanwattana (Thammasat University, Thailand)6. COVID-19 as a Foreign Language: How France Learned the Language of the PandemicEmilie Garrigou-Kempton (Pomona College, California, USA)PART II: Translating and Communicating COVID-197. Localising Science News Flows in a Global Pandemic: Translational Sourcing Practices in Flemish Reporting on COVID-19 Vaccine StudiesElisa 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 MediaAnthony 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 EvidenceDemi 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 PhilippinesMarlon 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 PandemicJemina 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 StudyJorn Rijckaert and Karolien Gebruers (Belgium)PART III: Translational Cultural Responses to COVID-1913. The Visual Language of COVID-19: Narrative, Data, and Emotion in Online Health CommunicationsKirsten Ostherr (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)14. Reading COVID-19 through Dante: A Literature-Based, Bilingual, and Translational Approach to Making Sense of the PandemicBeatrice Sica (University College London, UK)15. COVID-19 Bandes dessinées: Reframing Medical Heroism in French-Language Graphic NovelsSteven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)16. Translational Futures: Notes on Ecology and Translation from the COVID-19 CrisisMarta Arnaldi (University of Oxford, UK)List of Contributors

"With its revelatory observations on language, translation and culture during the COVID-19 pandemic, from a broad geographical, multimodal and cross-disciplinary perspective, this extensive and impressive volume provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of language in health crises."– Sharon O’Brien, Dublin City University"Never before the intricate relationships between linguistic identity, mental and physical health have been as visible as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging with trust, cognitive and emotive impact, metaphorical and semantic meaning, national and transnational contexts of healthcare communication, and many subtle interconnections in between, the contributors of this volume call us to reassess language as a factor in discourses of personal, national, and global health. A necessary reading."– Federico M. Federici, University College London"The Languages of COVID-19 provides an eloquent demonstration of how ‘following the science’...is no longer an effective or adequate response to global health crises such as COVID-19...The volume is to be recognised as a key intervention, from the perspective of what Ostherr dubbed the translational humanities, in the area of understanding the multiple impacts of COVID-19 past, present and future...This book deserves to be widely read across a range of disciplines and fields, with its implications integrated to policy and practice." – Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, The Translator