Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.
“When bad things happen to people”
Cultural pragmatics and cross-linguistic perspectives on danger
Chapter 2.
Society in danger
Samfundssind ‘community spirit’ and the cultural pragmatics of Danish pandemic discourse
Chapter 3.
A Japanese pragmatics of danger
The rise of
jishuku ‘self-discipline’ and
dōchō-atsuryoku ‘peer-pressure’ as pandemic
keywords in Japan
Chapter 4.
New social categories in dangerous times
Unidad familiar, conviviente, and
grupo burbuja in Spain’s “New Normal”
Chapter 5.
Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes
The pragmatics of danger and the discourse of heroism
Chapter 6.
Emergency messaging and dangerous translations
Case studies of Australian COVID-19 Discourse
Chapter 7.
Language learning in times of danger
Narratives of
confinamiento/confinement in Spanish – English bilingual online conversations during
lockdown
Chapter 8.
Planet in danger! Climate emotions in English
A cultural pragmatics study of
eco-anxiety,
grief and
distress
Chapter 9.
Alla yustur
Danger-thwarting divine interjectional phrase in Jish Arabic
Chapter 10.
The cultural pragmatics of “danger” in Chinese political discourse
Chapter 11.
Security,
Sicherheit,
ānquán
Similar-but-different key concepts in English, German and Chinese
Epilogue
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