Remedies against the Pandemic
How politicians communicate crisis management
Editors
The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies surrounding the first vaccination campaigns. Not limited to the Western world, it also offers insights from six East European countries, Uganda, India, and Palestine. Topics discussed range from inconsistent communication patterns to populist xenophobic accents, propagandistic campaigns on vaccines, the impact of authoritarian systems on crisis communication, the contrast between scientific and African folk medicine, and the use of war metaphors.
By adopting a comparative perspective, this volume contributes to the growing body of literature on crisis communication during the pandemic, while highlighting important issues and perspectives that have yet to be extensively explored. Moreover, it aims to bridge the gap between linguistic and communication research on leadership communication during times of crisis, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue.
By adopting a comparative perspective, this volume contributes to the growing body of literature on crisis communication during the pandemic, while highlighting important issues and perspectives that have yet to be extensively explored. Moreover, it aims to bridge the gap between linguistic and communication research on leadership communication during times of crisis, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] 2023. vi, 301 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction and overviewNadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss | pp. 1–17
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Section 1. Different politicians’ communicative strategies of presenting their pandemic management
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How Scandinavian political leaders appealed to cognitive or affective-based trust during the Covid-19 pandemicKristin Rygg | pp. 20–43
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Political speeches as a tool
of Covid19 crisis management? Discursive and linguistic localization of the crisis in Central Europe and Western BalkansMartina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurović | pp. 44–74 -
Linguistic strategies to present complexity in a time of crisis: How European leaders discussed the Covid-19 pandemicElena Callegari | pp. 75–101
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The ‘Covid-19 presidential genre’: An exploration of off-the-cuff rhetoric of fighting the pandemicLevis Mugumya | pp. 102–134
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Section 2. Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure,
and diverting one’s course -
Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context: Belarus vs. RussiaDaniel Weiss | pp. 136–168
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Shambolic blunder: Boris Johnson’s communication of failure
during the Covid-19 pandemicRegina Holze | pp. 169–195 -
Top-down meets bottom-up: Governmental miscommunication through
the lens of quotations in above- and below-the-line Guardian online comments on Covid-19Sonja Kleinke | pp. 196–227 -
Section 3. Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic for other purposes
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The social media campaign
for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine: International persuasive communication at the intersection of public diplomacy, strategic narratives and propagandaNadine Thielemann | pp. 230–255 -
Trump’s framing of Covid-19
as a war and conspiracy theoriesAndreas Musolff | pp. 256–275 -
Exploiting the crisis: Populists, migration, minorities and Covid-19Ruth Breeze and Sarali Gintsburg | pp. 276–298
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Index | pp. 299–301
Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics