Includes bibliographical references and index.

Are we all in this together? / Piotr Blumczynski, Steven Wilson

Part 1. COVID-19 and the global construction of language

Worldmaking in the time of COVID-19 : the challenge of the local and the global / Catherine Boyle, Renata Brandão

SARS-CoV-2 and discursive inoculation in France : lessons from HIV/AIDS / Loïc Bourdeau, V. Hunter Capps

War metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic : persuasion and manipulation / Patrizia Piredda

Prophylactic nationalism : COVID-19 in Thai public health discourse / Wanrug Suwanwattana

COVID-19 as a foreign language : how France learned the language of the pandemic / Emilie Garrigou-Kempton

Part 2. Translating and communicating COVID-19

Localising science news flows in a global pandemic : translational sourcing practices in flemish reporting on COVID-19 vaccine studies / Elisa Nelissen, Jack McMartin

Community trust in translations of official COVID-19 communications in Australia : an ethical dilemma between academics and news media / Anthony Pym, Bei Hu, Maria Karidakis, John Hajek, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Riccardo Amorati

Risk and crisis communication during COVID-19 in linguistically and culturally diverse communities : a scoping review of the available evidence / Demi Krystallidou, Sabine Braun

A lockdown by any other name : populist rhetoric as a communication strategy for COVID-19 in Duterte's Philippines / Marlon James Sales

Prophylactic language use : the case of deaf signers in England and their (lack of) access to government information during the COVID-19 pandemic / Jemina Napier, Robert Adam

A pandemic accompanied by an infodemic : how do deaf signers in flanders make informed decisions? A preliminary small-scale study / Jorn Rijckaert, Karolien Gebruers

Part 3. Translational cultural responses to COVID-19

The visual language of COVID-19 : narrative, data and emotion in online health communications / Kirsten Ostherr

Reading COVID-19 through Dante : a literature-based, bilingual and translational approach to making sense of the pandemic / Beatrice Sica

COVID-19 bandes dessinées : reframing medical heroism in French-language graphic novels / Steven Wilson

Translational futures : notes on ecology and translation from the COVID-19 crisis / Marta Arnaldi