ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 01 February 2022 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.792042 Edited by: José Antonio Hinojosa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Reviewed by: Concetta Papapicco, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Simone Belli, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain *Correspondence: Maria Pilgun pilgunm@yandex.ru Specialty section: This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Received: 11 October 2021 Accepted: 29 November 2021 Published: 01 February 2022 Citation: Pilgun M, Raskhodchikov AN and Koreneva Antonova O (2022) Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Communication. Front. Psychol. 12:792042. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.792042 Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Communication Maria Pilgun 1,2 * , Aleksei N. Raskhodchikov 3 and Olga Koreneva Antonova 4 1 Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia, 2 Department of Psycholinguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 3 Moscow Centre of Urban Studies “Gorod”, Moscow, Russia, 4 Department for Translation and Interpreting, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain The paper presents the results of a study on the analysis of the perception of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Spanish-, German- and Russian-speaking social media actors after the emergence of vaccines and attitudes toward vaccination. The empirical base of the study was corpus data, materials from online media, social networks, microblogging, blogs, instant messengers, forums, reviews, and video hosting data. The Spanish-language database included 6,640,912 tokens and 43,251,900 characters; the German-language database included 16,322,042 tokens and 109,139,405 characters; and the Russian-language database included 16,310,307 tokens and 109,060,935 characters. With a neural network approach, a multilingual analysis was performed, which made it possible to analyze the topic structure and the semantic network with the allocation of the semantic core and the associative network. Differential and integral features of the identified structures based on the material of these three databases made it possible to determine the general and different characteristics of the perception by Spanish-, German-, and Russian-speaking users of the development of the pandemic, a number of social problems, attitudes toward various types of vaccines, observance of preventive measures, and readiness for vaccination. Keywords: speech perception, social media, COVID-19, neural network technologies, multilingual communication, vaccination INTRODUCTION Perception of decease: The cognitive representation of a disease present in both patients and healthy individuals largely determines the emotional and behavioral responses of members of society. The specificity of the disease perception is one of the important factors in decision-making within the system of preventive measures, transformation of the health care system, as well as social, political, and economic spheres, especially during a pandemic. A note should be made of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) IMPACT project 1 , which is an international online survey conducted in 78 countries/regions of the world aimed at studying behavioral and psychological consequences of COVID-19. Based on the project data, a study was conducted in 16 European countries in the early period of the pandemic, which showed that Europeans reacted in a similar way to information about the COVID-19 spread in other countries; national differences were of no importance, but age, gender, and educational background affected the perception of COVID-19 under certain conditions. In addition, perceptions of this decease were 1 https://ucy.ac.cy/acthealthy/en/covid-19-impact-survey Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org 1 February 2022 | Volume 12 | Article 792042