Multilingual Environmental Communications - Language Accessibility Matters

"Using real-life case studies, this book illustrates new research methods to increase the accessibility and translatability of critical environmental information. It is essential reading for both academic researchers and students in applied linguistics and translation studies"--

List of contents

1. Previous research on language readability; 2. Statistics and machine learning for textual readability studies; 3. Readability of environmental health resources for parental education; 4. Exploring the suitability of environmental health information for parental education using machine learning models; 5. Improving the readability of Japanese translations of natural disaster risks through predictive automated English information design; 6. Forecasting mistakes in machine translation of environmental health information to African languages; 7. Assessing linguistic accessibility of Chinese environmental and health information; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index.

About the author

Meng Ji is Professor at the School of Languages and Cultures, the University of Sydney, Australia. For two decades, her work has pioneered translation research innovation, through developing interdisciplinary research methods and models.Michael Oakes is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests are in Statistics for Corpus Linguistics, Authorship Attribution and Empirical Translation Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Meng Ji, Meng (University of Sydney) Oakes Ji, Ji Meng, Michael Oakes, Oakes Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781316512463
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51246-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Language Practices and Social Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; machine learning, Linguistics, Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Environmental factors, Communication Studies, Environmental policy and protocols, Translation and interpretation, Medical and health informatics, Computational and corpus linguistics, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, isiZulu (Zulu)