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Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 102] 2023
► pp. 1–17

Introduction and overview

| Vienna University of Economics and Business
| University of Zurich
Article outline
  • 1.Section: Different politicians’ communicative strategies of presenting their pandemic management
  • 2.Section: Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure, and diverting one’s course
  • 3.Section: Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic for other purposes
  • References
Published online: 24 July 2023
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