Multilingual Crisis Communication: Insights from China [Hardcover]

Multilingual crisis communication?is the first book to explore the lived experiences of linguistic minorities in crisis-affected settings in the Global South, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.?

'Setting a milestone in critical sociolinguistic and applied linguistic studies, this volume offers critical insights into overcoming communication barriers for linguistic minorities during crises, promoting social justice, and enhancing public health responses through inclusive, multimodal, and multilingual strategies. It also serves as testimonies of resilience, courage and kindness during the turbulent time'?

- Professor Zhu Hua, Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences and Director of International Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL, UK

'The global pandemic has brought to the fore the key role of multilingual communication in disasters and emergencies. This volume contains cutting edge ethnographic studies that address this seriously from the perspective of Chinese scholars and minoritized populations in China. A decisive contribution to the burgeoning field of multilingualism and critical sociolinguistics in times of crisis.'

-?Professor Virginia Zavala, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica del Per?, Per?

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Multilingual crisis communication: Beyond languages and modalities, Jia Li, Jie Zhang

Part I: Multilingual crisis communication in ethnic minority regions

Chapter 1. Baipkv as networked multilingualism in an ethnic Bai-centered regiolã