Idioms of Distress, Resilience and Well-Being: Enhancing understanding about mental health in multilingual contexts

该项目旨在扩大目前在加纳、加沙、乌干达和津巴布韦的研究，重点是当地语言被用来表达痛苦和幸福的方式。具体地说，这项拟议的研究旨在加强人们对如何通过借鉴当地习语--幸福、韧性和痛苦--来发展能力的理解。艺术和人文观点将与现有的全球精神卫生文献结合在一起，以开发翻译这些习语的创新方法，并对它们出现的背景更加敏感。拟开展的活动：为实现这一目标，本提案将：a)开展案头研究，对心理健康医学文献以及语言研究和人类学中关于痛苦、复原和幸福的表达进行比较文献审查。b)利用故事生成方法，在现场和数字环境中进行田野调查，鼓励参与者在翻译语言的背景下和研究地点与研究人员和讲故事者一起讲述他们的语言和词语的使用。D)通过跨文化、多语言制作和会议，将语言数据转化为艺术表现形式，并通过培训方案在每种情况下产生更广泛的影响。实地工作将在现有案例研究中或通过研究人员的语言--加纳、乌干达、加沙地带、津巴布韦和新抵达格拉斯哥的难民--所代表的大量符合官方发展援助的背景下进行。通过使用语言故事生成方法，我们将加强濒临灭绝的文化习俗和非物质文化遗产，并减轻因缺乏方法灵活性和对在冲突或胁迫情况下进行多语言研究的经验缺乏敏感性而可能造成的损害。通过以艺术的方式呈现产生的数据，我们将制作表演和数字材料，用于跨文化和地方背景下的培训和人类发展活动。

This project aims to extend research presently in Ghana, Gaza, Uganda and Zimbabwe by focusing on the way local languages are used to express distress and well-being. Specifically the proposed research aims to enhance understanding about how capabilities can be developed by drawing on local idioms - of well-being, resilience and distress. Arts and humanities perspectives will be brought together with the existing Global Mental Health literature to develop innovative ways of translating these idioms with greater sensitivity to the context in which they have emerged. IN particular the place of the local environment and its importance for expression of pain and of resilience and well-being will be analysed.Proposed Activities: In order to achieve this aim this proposal will:a) engage in desk research to conduct a comparative literature review of expressions of distress, resilience and well-being in both the medical literature on mental health and in language studies and anthropology.b) Conduct fieldwork in-situ and digitally, using story-generating methodologies which encourage participants to tell stories about their languages and their use of words in translingual contexts and research sites with researchers and story-tellers. c) Embed the data collected into programmes which raise awareness of the importance of multilingual sensitivity for working cross-culturally and which aim to mainstream approaches to well-being in populations under pain and pressure.d) Translate linguistic data into artistic expressions through an intercultural, multilingual, production and conference, which create wider impacts through training programmes in each context.Fieldwork will take place in the ODA compliant contexts represented in the large grant either in the existing case studies or through the researchers' languages i.e. Ghana, Uganda, Gaza Strip, Zimbabwe and with new arrival refugees in Glasgow. By using the language story-generating methodologies we will strengthen cultural practices and intangible cultural heritage which is at risk, and mitigate the damage which can occur through a lack of methodological flexibility and sensitivity to the experience of researching multilingually in contexts of conflict or duress. By representing the data generated artistically, we will produce performance and digital materials for use in training and human development activities for both intercultural and local contexts.