Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

Ingrid Piller

Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

Ingrid Piller

Centre for Workforce Futures

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Abstract

The communication of public health information is a key aspect of the containment of contagious diseases. In fact, communication has been such a major aspect of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that it has been said to be accompanied by an “infodemic”, where many populations do not have access to sufficient reliable information while simultaneously being swamped with misleading information.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 16 Mar 2020

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© 2020 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

Keywords

200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

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