Rendering Covid-19 Related Terms from English into Asante Twi in Press Releases from The Ghana Ministries of Health and Information

La présente étude porte sur la traduction des termes liés à la COVID-19 de l'anglais vers asante twi.Elle visait à analyser et explorer le vocabulaire utilisé pour parler de la situation de la COVID-19 dans l'espace public ghanéen afin d'assurer la diffusion d'informations précises et de mesures visant à endiguer la propagation du virus.Elle a identifié, décrit et expliqué les termes liés à la COVID-19 de l'anglais vers l'asante twi, a déterminé les stratégies utilisées pour rendre les termes en asante twi, et a mis en évidence les contraintes liées à la traduction des termes en asante twi.L'étude a adopté un modèle de recherche quantitatif et qualitatif qui s'articule autour de l'approche des études de traduction descriptive (DTS) de Toury (1995).S'appuyant principalement sur les théories de la communication, du skopos et de la sociolinguistique de la traduction, l'étude a consisté en l'analyse de quinze ( 15) termes liés à la COVID-19 en anglais et de leurs traductions en asante twi.Les termes anglais liés à la COVID-19 ont été extraits des communiqués de presse des ministères de la santé et de l'information du Ghana, et leurs traductions en asante twi ont été obtenues à partir de trois Abstract: At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the pressing need to communicate the COVID-19 situation in the Ghanaian public space and to ensure the dissemination of accurate information and measures to curb the spread of the virus.This study thus identified, described and explained the translation of COVID-19-related terms from English into Asante Twi, determined the strategies used to render the terms into Asante Twi and brought out constraints faced by translators to communicate the terms into Asante Twi.The study adopted a quantitative and qualitative research design that hinged on the Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) approach by Toury (1995).The research was underpinned by the Communication, Skopos and Sociolinguistic theories of translation.A corpus of 15 COVID19-related terms in English and their corresponding Asante Twi translations were compiled.The English COVID-19-related terms were extracted from press releases of the Ghana ministries of health and information and their Asante Twi translations in three broadcast stations namely: Adom FM, Adom TV and Peace FM.The findings of the study revealed that the techniques that were frequently used to render the COVID-19-related terms from English into Asante Twi were explicitation, expansion and equivalence which were all target-text oriented.These techniques all fell under the domestication strategy (oblique or free translation) accounting for 93% of the overall strategy used.The study also revealed the most common constraints were at the level of structure at a percentage of 53%, and that the strategy of domestication can be used in overcoming most of these constraints.This study is a significant contribution to the field of translation studies and to the growing body of research on language access in public health emergencies.