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.
Xiaosui Xiao
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xiaosui Xiao plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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2008 2. A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 33–52 | Article
This essay addresses a significant question in crisis communication: how should a government perform its role as the official “public narrator” in times of grave disaster? In particular, how should it report its own course of action during and after the crisis? These questions proved to be… read more