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Publication details [#48628]
Desjardins, Renée. 2022. Hello/Bonjour Won't Cut It in a Health Crisis: an analysis of language policy and translation strategy across Manitoban websites and social media during COVID-19. In Lee, Tong King and Dingkun Wang, eds. Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic. London: Routledge. pp. 78–98. URL
Publication type
Chapter in book
Publication language
English
Abstract
This chapter proposes an initial investigation of the Government of Manitoba's online COVID-19 translation strategy. More specifically, this case study focuses on how translated and multilingual content is accessed from a user's perspective (or user experience/UX). The study focuses on the Government of Manitoba website and its official social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Analysis shows a haphazard approach to translation and multilingualism across COVID-19 website content and the Government of Manitoba's social media accounts relative to the linguistic make-up of the provincial population. This analysis is compared to other social ‘conversations’ on Twitter, relative to vaccine rollout. The case study intends to expand research on multilingualism, language barriers and linguistic and translational justice in Canada beyond the ‘Bilingual Belt’ and the official languages (English; French) in the handling of crisis communication and public health communication during the COVID‑19 pandemic.
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