In the COVID-19 pandemic, public health awareness is the handiest tool to guard this crisis. Public health awareness helps and reduces the intensity of spreading rate and reduces death rate, and precautionary measures are required to regulate this pandemic disease. The purpose of this paper is to explore how information about public health is sought and utilized in this emergency lockdown situation.

1. BUILDINGSAFETYAWARENESSDURINGCORONA
PANDEMIC:ROLEOFLANGUAGECOMMUNICATION
STAMFORD UNIVERSITY
BANGLADESH
SUPERVISED BY
Md. Azizul Haque
Associate professor
Department of English
Stamford University Bangladesh
SUBMITTED BY
Sihab Mahmud
ID: ENF 07205582
Department of English
Stamford University Bangladesh
DATE 3RD DEC, 2021

2. INTRODUCTION
In the COVID-19 pandemic public health awareness is the handiest tool to guard this crisis.
Public health awareness helps and reduces the intensity of spreading rate and reduces death
rate, and precautionary measures are required to regulate this pandemic disease. The most
purpose of this paper is to explore how information about public health is sought and utilized
in this emergency lockdown situation.

3. RESEARCHQUESTION
Does the use of proper language help people to be
aware of the situation of corona pandemic?

4. RESEARCHOBJECTIVE
To find out whether the language is helpful to
build people's awareness
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GENERALOBJECTIVE
To find out which language dominates the people
most
SPECIFICOBJECTIVE
01
To find out whether english language have chance
to be a part of camping about awareness
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5. JUSTIFICATIONOFRESEARCH
Nowadays Corona Pandemic has become a regular issue in our daily lives.
Before 2019 we don’t have any idea about this type of pandemic situation.
So it can be a new good topic for research and can draw attention for those
who really want to do something different and interesting work.

6. RESEARCHPROBLEM
From 2019 we can get to know about coronavirus in China and in March 2020, it also came
to Bangladesh. Before we suffer this pandemic situation we don’t have an idea how to
aware people when they need to pass crucial moments like this. This is really a very hard
time for everyone and maybe they are not mentally ready to get suggestions with rough
language. They need friendly language when they get instructions about how to survive this
condition. so who tries to make aware people they need to use proper language through
which they can feel strong and without extreme fear they pass this situation with caring
proper safety.

7. TERMINOLOGY
• Language
• Dialects
• Media
• Standard Language
• Language variety
• Phonetic
• Socio linguistics

8. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
ConversationTheory
The conversation theory is a transdisciplinary learning theory. Developed by
Gordon Pask in 1975, it is influenced by a range of cybernetics, linguistics,
computer science concepts, cognitive psychology and neurophysiology.
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HealthBeliefModel
The health belief model in behavioural psychology is termed as an ‘expectancy-
value’ model. This means the model assumes that an individual takes an action
based on their evaluation of the most likely outcome of engaging in a new form
of changing existing behaviour. The model is very popular and has proven its
durability in the field of health education. It details the complex relationship
between motivation, health behaviour and outcome.
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9. RELATEDWORKS
This article examines the recontextualization of traditional Mongolian verbal art khuuriin ülger by Mongolian folk singers in the context of the
spread of COVID-19 in Inner Mongolia, China. The article argues that the minority Mongols participate in the dominant global and national
discourses while at the same time creating a sense of The article also finds that the multivocal COVID-19 Mongolian fiddle stories are a
medium to articulate the very heteroglot sense of the world in which minority Mongols dwell and to construct and reaffirm their multi-layered
identities.
The mediated Mongolian khuuriin ülger is a multi-layered artistic object, with interacting visual, verbal, and acoustic elements. Close
inspection of 94 fiddle story video clips uploaded online since the outbreak of COVID-19 in China reveals a cornucopia of information deployed
across these semiotic channels. In this online collection of 94 COVID-19-themed fiddle story video clips, I have paid attention to approximately
20 performances of the fiddle stories and selected a core sample of three fiddle stories for close analysis. The salient COVID-19-themeobserved
in the corpus can be further divided into three sub-themes. ( Gegentuul Hongye Bai, 2020)
An example of language needs from the local community is given by Field through her discussions with local groups. (Field, 2017) There is an
urgency to identify best practices and to provide new insights for, or indeed create, recommendations for crisis translation policy for national,
European, and international agencies that regularly work across borders and across languages, with a view to reversing inequalities across
language communities and promoting fairness of access to information. Crisis communication literature emphasizes the difficulties when
trying to communicate with those who are the most vulnerable, e. Dealing adequately with these challenges must be within the scope of
crisis translation into the future, when, in many societies with migrant populations, first generation migrants will represent large communities
in the care homes and their linguistic skills may not meet their communicative needs.

10. RESEARCHGAP
As there are some works done on communication and pandemic situations. But
there is no work done in the role of language for the awareness building in the
situation of corona pandemic. That’s how a researcher got a new interesting
topic to search the importance of using the perfect language in the pandemic
situation.

11. RESEARCHMETHODOLOGY
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Research Design:
The study follows a mixed method approach because certain qualitative and
quantitative tools are used to gather information.
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03
04
Sampling:
The data have been collected through convenient techniques from the internet.
Data Collection Tool:
Observations Checklist have been used for collecting data from the online media.
Data Collection Procedure:
For this research purpose, I have used a questionnaires survey among the
respondents.

12. LIMITATIONANDDELIMITATION
This study has some limitations. Due to the new field of research, we could not get
much literature to relate the present study. Therefore, a dependence on pandemic
situation literature is used here. Lack of time has created another problem during the
analyzing time. If we could get more time , the study might have been far better.

13. DATAANALYSIS

14. WereyouawareofCoronapandemicfromtheverybeginning?
Q1
0
20
40
60
80
100
Yes No Sometimes Very Rarely

15. Haveyougotanyawarenessfromyourinstitutionthatyouhave
beenstudying?
Q2
01
0
20
40
60
80
100
Yes No Sometimes Very Rarely

16. Howdoesawarenesswork?
Q3
01
0
20
40
60
80
100
At the Individual level At family level Collectively at the
institutional level
At social level

17. Whichinstrumentsdidplaythevitalroletomakeyouawareofthe
pandemic?
Q4
0
20
40
60
80
100
Govt. Circulars Print / Electronics
media news
Healthcare service
news
Social Media
Notification

18. Whichtype oflanguagedoyouthinkismoreappropriatetocreate
socialawareness?
Q5
01
0
20
40
60
80
100
Street Legislative Mass storytelling Social Networking Discourses of political /
religious leaders

19. Whichsocialmedia notificationdidyoufindmore truthfulin
creatingawarenessduringpandemic?
Q6
0
20
40
60
80
100
Facebook Twitter Govt. SMS Local Circulation

20. Whichtype oflanguageismore suitableinbuildingfirst
communication?
Q7
01
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Sign
Descriptive

21. Fordescriptivelanguagewhichoneactedmore efficientlyfor
buildingawareness?
Q8
01
0
20
40
60
80
100
Bangla English Mixed Others

22. Forcommunicationwhichfactorsplaysignificantrole?
Q9
0
20
40
60
80
100
Gender Age Taste Education

23. Didyoufeelanyproblemcomprehendingthelanguageof
awareness?
Q10
0
20
40
60
80
100
Yes No Sometimes Very Rarely

24. Doyou Thinkthathealthawarenessmessageshouldcomposedin
Bangla?
Q11
0 20 40 60 80 100
Yes
No

25. Mentionhowmore efficiently thelanguageofcommunicationfor
pandemicawarenesscouldhavebeenmade.
Q12
Some participants mention that the language is not important, rather the people's
understanding is more important. Whatever the language we're using we should explain
all the terminology in their understanding level so that they can get the point via social
media and from every sector of our life. On the other hand, most of the participants
mention that It was really an obvious need for everyone to use language effectively.
Spreading mass awareness in every form, not only written but also public
announcements in every local area so that the uneducated people also can get it easily
and follow health precautions. The Government would have organized more awareness
speeches to keep the citizens updated.

26. From findings finds that students are aware about use of language during pandemic
from beginning. Participants know about appropriateness of language to create
awareness. They also believe the contribution of social media. Researcher finds
that descriptive language is more suitable for building first communication. They
think that information should be composed in Bangla. Some participants think
that language doesn’t mater. However government could have organized more
awareness speeches to keep citizens updated.
FINDINGS

27. Any communication in COVID-19 is crucial whether from government
to people, from media to people, people to people, doctor to patient,
within families and so on. Effective communication emphasizes the
importance of content, accuracy, comprehensive signs, symbols,
language, culture, and semiotic rules.
CONCLUSION

28. 1. Students should practice Bangla standard form and English parallels in
their conversation.
2. Though pandemic situation is now in under control but everyone should
maintain safety.
3. Awareness campaign need to continue like before.
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30. THANKYOU

31. SIHAB
MAHMUD
sihab.shuvo@gmail.com