John H. Powers

List of John Benjamins publications for which John H. Powers plays a role.

Title

The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis

Edited by John H. Powers and Xiaosui Xiao

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Powers, John H. 2008 Introduction The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Miscellaneous

Powers, John H. and Gwendolyn Gong 2008 1. Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 17–31 | Article

This chapter identifies five significant interpretive frames which operated in Hong Kong and southern China as the SARS crisis developed in spring 2003. These five frames treated SARS, respectively, as (a) a state secret of the Chinese provincial officials, (b) a scientific mystery to be solved by… read more