Table of contents
Introduction and overview
1
Section 1.Different politicians’ communicative strategies of presenting
their pandemic management
How Scandinavian political leaders appealed to cognitive or affective-based
trust during the Covid-19 pandemic
20
Political speeches as a tool of Covid19 crisis management?
Discursive and linguistic localization of the crisis in Central Europe and Western Balkans
44
Linguistic strategies to present complexity in a time of crisis
How
European leaders discussed the Covid-19 pandemic
75
The ‘Covid-19 presidential genre’
An exploration of off-the-cuff rhetoric
of fighting the pandemic
102
Section 2.Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure,
and diverting one’s course
Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context
Belarus vs. Russia
136
Shambolic blunder
Boris Johnson’s communication of failure during
the Covid-19 pandemic
169
Top-down meets
bottom-up
Governmental miscommunication through
the lens of quotations in
above- and
below-the-line Guardian online comments on Covid-19
196
Section 3.Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic
for other purposes
The social media campaign for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
International persuasive communication at the intersection of public diplomacy,
strategic narratives and propaganda
230
Trump’s framing of Covid-19 as a war and conspiracy theories
256
Exploiting the crisis
Populists, migration, minorities and Covid-19
276
Index