{"product_id":"pandemic-and-crisis-discourse-9781350232693","title":"Pandemic and Crisis Discourse","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003eThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings. Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the public health crisis itself, this book focuses on the communicative tasks and challenges for both speakers and their public audiences in seven areas:- establishment of discursive and political authority - official governmental and expert communication to the public - public understanding of government communication- legitimation of public health management as a war'  - judging and blaming a collective other- cross-national comparison and rivalry - empathy and encouragementCovering global discourses from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and New Zealand, chapters use corpus-based data to cast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/h2\u003eWe ... recommend to researchers in Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric the reading of this [volume], rich in innovative studies [and] in proposals for future research. * Argumentation et Analyse du Discours (Bloomsbury Translation) *\u003cbr\u003eThe Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial importance of understanding and critiquing health-related communication at a time of global crisis. This volume meets that challenge with a remarkable combination of breadth and depth. It shows that discourse analysis is more relevant than ever to help overcome current and future health crises. * Elena Semino, Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art, Lancaster University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis exciting and comprehensive volume treats the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on discourse as a truly global phenomenon. Wide ranging in coverage and diverse in content, this authoritative account is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the framing of the pandemic crisis by international institutions and governments around the world. * Jonathan Charteris-Black, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, UWE Bristol, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h2\u003eList of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, \u003ci\u003eAndreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: The Discourse of Authority in a Global Crisis: Who Defines (If There Is) a Pandemic?\u003c\/b\u003e 1.     COVID-19 Press Conferences Across Time: World Health Organization vs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, \u003ci\u003eDennis Tay\u003c\/i\u003e 2.     Exploring the Multimodal Representation of COVID-19 on the Official Homepage of World Health Organization (WHO): A Social-Semiotic Approach, \u003ci\u003eAmir H. Y. Salama\u003c\/i\u003e 3.     COVID-19 Representations in Political Statements: A Corpus-Driven Analysis, \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Papamanoli and Themis P. Kaniklidou\u003c\/i\u003e 4.     How Autocrats Cope with the Corona Challenge: Belarus vs. Russia, \u003ci\u003eDaniel Weiss\u003c\/i\u003e 5.     Counting Coronavirus: Mathematical Language in The UK Response to Covid-19, \u003ci\u003eLee Jarvis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: The Discourse of Crisis Management: How is the Public Meant to and How Does it Understand the Pandemic?\u003c\/b\u003e 6.     “Coronavirus Explainers” for Public Communication of Science: Everything the Public Needs to Know, \u003ci\u003eMaría José Luzón\u003c\/i\u003e 7.     ‘COVID Warriors: An Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Children’s Books to Help them Understand Covid-19, \u003ci\u003eMaría Muelas-Gil\u003c\/i\u003e 8.     Corona in the Linguistic Landscape, \u003ci\u003eNeele Mundt and Frank Polzenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e 9.     Political Comedy and the Challenges of Public Communication during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Corpus-Based Study of Last Week Tonight’s Coverage of the Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Zorzi\u003c\/i\u003e 10.  Social Reaction to a New Health Threat: The Perception of the COVID-19 Health Crisis by British and Spanish Readerships, \u003ci\u003eSara Vilar-Lluch\u003c\/i\u003e 11.  How to Pass this Exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through Metaphors in Turkish Online Public Discourse, \u003ci\u003eMelike Bas and Esranur Efeoglu-Özcan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: The Discourse of ‘War’ against the Pandemic: How to ‘Fight’ COVID-19?\u003c\/b\u003e 12.  When Wars are Good: Emotional Unpacking Anti-Coronavirus Measures, \u003ci\u003eMolly Xie Pan and Joanna Zhuoan Chen\u003c\/i\u003e 13.  Legitimising a Global Fight for a Shared Future: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Reportage of COVID-19 in China Daily, \u003ci\u003eYating Yu\u003c\/i\u003e 14.  Metaphoric Framings of Fighting COVID-19, \u003ci\u003eMariana Neagu\u003c\/i\u003e 15.  From an Invisible Enemy to a Football Match with the Virus: Adjusting the COVID-19 Pandemic Metaphors to Political Agendas in Serbian Public Discourse, \u003ci\u003eNadežda Silaški and Tatjana Ðurovic\u003c\/i\u003e 16.  Are Health Care Political Responses Gendered? A Case Study, \u003ci\u003eFabienne Baider and Maria Constantinou\u003c\/i\u003e 17.  “War against COVID-19”: Is the Pandemic as War Metaphor Helpful or Hurtful?, \u003ci\u003eAndreas Musolff\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Discourse of Judgement and Rivalry: Blaming Other\/s for the Pandemic and Comparing National Performances\u003c\/b\u003e 18.  “Chinese Virus”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S. Government Communication about COVID-19 and its Impact on Chinese and Asian Americans in the U.S., \u003ci\u003ePeiwen Wang and Theresa Catalano\u003c\/i\u003e 19.  ‘Those Lunatic Zombies’: The Discursive Framing of Wuhan Lockdown Escapees in Digital Space, \u003ci\u003eJanet Ho and Emily Chiang\u003c\/i\u003e 20.  Identity as Crime: How Indian Media’s Coverage Demonised Muslims as Coronavirus Spreader, \u003ci\u003eAaquib Khan\u003c\/i\u003e 21.  Media Discourse in Slovenia and in the Slovenian-Italian Cross-Border Area during the COVID-19 Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eVesna Mikolic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart V: The Discourse of Empathy and Encouragement: How to Foster Solidarity among Doctors, Patients and Health Experts\u003c\/b\u003e 22.  Agency in End-of-Life Conversations during the COVID-19 Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eDariusz Galasinski and Justyna Ziólkowska\u003c\/i\u003e 23.  Doctors’ Empathy and Compassion in Online Health Consultations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan, \u003ci\u003eKayo Kondo\u003c\/i\u003e 24.  “Masks aren’t Comfortable or Sexy, but…”: Exploring Identity Work on Dr Mike’s Instagram during the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eKim Schoofs, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Stephanie Schnurr, Haiyan Huang and Anastasia Stavridou\u003c\/i\u003e 25.  Choosing to Stay Fit? Glocalized Ideologies of Health and Fitness during a Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eUlrike Vogl, Geert Jacobs, Karin Andersson and Jesper Andreasson\u003c\/i\u003e 26.  Unite against COVID-19: Jacinda Ardern’s Discursive Approach to the Pandemic, \u003ci\u003eMarta Degani\u003c\/i\u003e Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738607628631,"sku":"9781350232693","price":133.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350232693.jpg?v=1720049636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pandemic-and-crisis-discourse-9781350232693","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}