RAPID: Collaborative Research: Providing useable COVID-19 health information to linguistically underserved people

该项目使用语言文献方法来探索与新冠肺炎健康相关的信息与美国语言服务不足人群的有效沟通。这样的社区可能无法获得以其母语提供的可靠健康信息。研究人员可以将信息从英语翻译成其他语言，但仅靠翻译并不能确保信息以文化上合适的方式呈现，从而最大限度地发挥作用。这一大流行的未来路径和可能的死灰复燃仍是未知的，因此了解群体健康观念和行为至关重要，以便为这些服务不足的人群制定关键信息材料的最佳做法。对这些人群的语言进行科学调查，为健康信息和文化背景之间架起了桥梁。语言学家和卫生信息专家将与一个语言服务不足的社区合作，收集个人和群体的反思，就语言文档项目中很少收集的主题引发高度情绪化的联系演讲。收集的语音样本可能包括罕见的词汇、成语、仪式语言、歌曲和记忆中的实践，这些都是信念和激励健康行为的基础。语言面谈将由第一代以英语为母语的本科生和社区成员进行。该项目将创建：(1)用于语言文件实地工作的视频会议技术协议；(2)关于健康和健康的独特语料库(个人陈述、访谈、对话)，可用于未来的语言研究；(3)增进社区对健康知识的了解。我们的目标是帮助制定更广泛的最佳做法，为服务不足的社区设计卫生传播信息，特别是在时间敏感的情况下，就像目前迅速变化的大流行病一样。记录方法和由此产生的信息材料可以在美国和国际上复制到其他非英语国家的团体。所有材料，包括内联注释文本语料库，将在北得克萨斯大学数字图书馆存档并向公众开放。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project uses language documentation methodology to explore effective communication of COVID-19 health-related information to linguistically underserved populations in the US. Such communities may not have access to reliable health information in their native languages. Researchers can translate information from English into other languages, but translation alone cannot ensure information is presented in ways that are culturally appropriate and therefore maximally effective. The future path and possible resurgence of this pandemic remains unknown, so it is critical to learn about group health perceptions and behaviors in order to create best practices for developing critical informational materials for these underserved populations. Scientific investigation of languages for these populations provides the bridge between health information and cultural context. Linguists and health information experts will work with a linguistically underserved community to collect personal and group reflections, eliciting highly emotive connected speech on topics rarely collected in language documentation projects. The collected speech samples will potentially include rare vocabulary, idioms, ritual language, songs, and remembered practices that underlie beliefs and motivate health behavior. In-language interviews will be conducted by first-generation native speakers who are undergraduate students and community members. The project will create: (1) video-conferencing technology protocols for language documentation fieldwork; (2) a unique corpus of interlinear glossed texts (personal accounts, interviews, conversations) on health and wellness which can be used in future linguistic research; and (3) increased understanding of health literacy in the community. We aim to contribute to the development of broader best practices for health communication message design to underserved communities, especially during time-sensitive scenarios, as is the case with the current rapidly-changing pandemic. The documentary methods and resulting informational materials can be replicated for other non-English speaking groups within the US and internationally. All materials, including a corpus of interlinear glossed texts, will be archived and publicly-accessible at the University of North Texas Digital Library.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.