Pandemic and Crisis Discourse

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. Ruth Breeze is Professor of English at the Institute of Modern Languages at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain.Kayo Kondo is Teaching Associate at the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.Sara Vilar-Lluch is a Spanish Language Tutor at the Modern Language Centre, King’s College London, UK.

We ... recommend to researchers in Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric the reading of this [volume], rich in innovative studies [and] in proposals for future research.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction, Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-LluchPart I: The Discourse of Authority in a Global Crisis: Who Defines (If There Is) a Pandemic?1. COVID-19 Press Conferences Across Time: World Health Organization vs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dennis Tay2. Exploring the Multimodal Representation of COVID-19 on the Official Homepage of World Health Organization (WHO): A Social-Semiotic Approach, Amir H. Y. Salama3. COVID-19 Representations in Political Statements: A Corpus-Driven Analysis, Alexandra Papamanoli and Themis P. Kaniklidou4. How Autocrats Cope with the Corona Challenge: Belarus vs. Russia, Daniel Weiss5. Counting Coronavirus: Mathematical Language in The UK Response to Covid-19, Lee JarvisPart II: The Discourse of Crisis Management: How is the Public Meant to and How Does it Understand the Pandemic?6. “Coronavirus Explainers” for Public Communication of Science: Everything the Public Needs to Know, María José Luzón7. ‘COVID Warriors: An Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Children’s Books to Help them Understand Covid-19, María Muelas-Gil8. Corona in the Linguistic Landscape, Neele Mundt and Frank Polzenhagen9. 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, Virginia Zorzi10. Social Reaction to a New Health Threat: The Perception of the COVID-19 Health Crisis by British and Spanish Readerships, Sara Vilar-Lluch11. How to Pass this Exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through Metaphors in Turkish Online Public Discourse, Melike Bas and Esranur Efeoglu-ÖzcanPart III: The Discourse of ‘War’ against the Pandemic: How to ‘Fight’ COVID-19?12. When Wars are Good: Emotional Unpacking Anti-Coronavirus Measures, Molly Xie Pan and Joanna Zhuoan Chen13. Legitimising a Global Fight for a Shared Future: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Reportage of COVID-19 in China Daily, Yating Yu14. Metaphoric Framings of Fighting COVID-19, Mariana Neagu15. From an Invisible Enemy to a Football Match with the Virus: Adjusting the COVID-19 Pandemic Metaphors to Political Agendas in Serbian Public Discourse, Nadežda Silaški and Tatjana Ðurovic16. Are Health Care Political Responses Gendered? A Case Study, Fabienne Baider and Maria Constantinou17. “War against COVID-19”: Is the Pandemic as War Metaphor Helpful or Hurtful?, Andreas MusolffPart IV: The Discourse of Judgement and Rivalry: Blaming Other/s for the Pandemic and Comparing National Performances18. “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., Peiwen Wang and Theresa Catalano19. ‘Those Lunatic Zombies’: The Discursive Framing of Wuhan Lockdown Escapees in Digital Space, Janet Ho and Emily Chiang20. Identity as Crime: How Indian Media’s Coverage Demonised Muslims as Coronavirus Spreader, Aaquib Khan21. Media Discourse in Slovenia and in the Slovenian-Italian Cross-Border Area during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vesna MikolicPart V: The Discourse of Empathy and Encouragement: How to Foster Solidarity among Doctors, Patients and Health Experts22. Agency in End-of-Life Conversations during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dariusz Galasinski and Justyna Ziólkowska23. Doctors’ Empathy and Compassion in Online Health Consultations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan, Kayo Kondo24. “Masks aren’t Comfortable or Sexy, but…”: Exploring Identity Work on Dr Mike’s Instagram during the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kim Schoofs, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Stephanie Schnurr, Haiyan Huang and Anastasia Stavridou25. Choosing to Stay Fit? Glocalized Ideologies of Health and Fitness during a Pandemic, Ulrike Vogl, Geert Jacobs, Karin Andersson and Jesper Andreasson26. Unite against COVID-19: Jacinda Ardern’s Discursive Approach to the Pandemic, Marta DeganiIndex