Miscommunication in the COVID-19 Era

Gerardo M. García; Marleen Haboud; Rosaleen Howard; Antonia Manresa; Julieta Zurita

doi:10.1111/blar.13179

Miscommunication in the COVID-19 Era

Gerardo M. García, Marleen Haboud, Rosaleen Howard, Antonia Manresa, Julieta Zurita

Faculty of Communication, Linguistics, and Literature

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Abstract

This article discusses issues around the communication of preventive health messages related to COVID‐19 to indigenous language‐speaking communities in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Official communication is primarily in Spanish, and the many translation initiatives that have arisen do not always succeed in getting the message across due to the lack of cultural interpretation that needs to accompany the linguistic message. This situation compounds the vulnerability of indigenous peoples in the face of the crisis

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-46
Number of pages	8
Journal	Bulletin of Latin American Research
Volume	39
Issue number	S1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13179
State	Published - 27 Dec 2020

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© 2020 The Authors. Bulletin of Latin American Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for Latin American Studies.

Keywords

COVID-19
health
indigenous languages
indigenous people
interpretation
translation

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