TRANSLATIONS IN INTENSIVE CARE
TRANSLATIONS IN INTENSIVE CARE

Summary/Abstract: During the two-year pandemic, translators, interpreters and terminologists had a difficult mission, as they had to keep up with all the changes at the lexical level and, at the same time, to cope with a huge workload and with the physical and psychological pressure imposed by such a crisis. Scientific papers, medical letters, clinical trial reports, technical manuals and reviews of medical literature had to be translated in record time, whereas patients’ dialogues with foreign doctors, international conference speeches and television shows required the presence of medical interpreters. The purpose of this article is to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of translation, interpretation and terminology and to analyse the emotional context behind the actual communication. The main research directions are the phenomenon of infodemic, with its consequences on re-shaping communication, the impact of the pandemic on terminology and the new tendencies in medical translation and interpretation, implying the use of machine translation and infographics. The theoretical framework has been provided by some Chinese psycholinguists, J. Xu, C. Liu and X. Luo, who analysed the effects of the pandemic at the linguistic level, and by a famous Romanian linguist, R. Zafiu, who emphasized the changes that the pandemic brought to our language. The results of my research have shown that people from various countries adapted to the crisis not only from the medical or social viewpoint, but also from the linguistic perspective, taking “intensive care” of the message they transmitted on social networks, in mass media or in translated texts.

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