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Pandemic and crisis discourse : (Record no. 16924)

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781350232723
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781350232723
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781350232723
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number RA644 .P36 2024
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Pandemic and crisis discourse :
Remainder of title communicating COVID-19 and public health strategy
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch.
Copyright Date
Place of publication London ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher Bloomsbury Academic,
Year of publication or production 2024
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xviii, 494 pages
Other physical details illustrations
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings. Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the public health crisis itself, this book focuses on the communicative tasks and challenges for both speakers and their public audiences in seven areas: - establishment of discursive and political authority - official governmental and expert communication to the public - public understanding of government communication - legitimation of public health management as a 'war' - judging and blaming a collective other - cross-national comparison and rivalry - empathy and encouragement Covering global discourses from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and New Zealand, chapters use corpus-based data to cast light on these issues from a variety of languages. With crisis discourse already the object of fierce national and international debates about the appropriateness of specific communicative styles, information management and 'verbal hygiene', Pandemic and Crisis Discourse offers an authoritative intervention from language experts"--
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term COVID-19 (Disease)
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term COVID-19 (Disease)
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Public health.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Public relations.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Crisis management.
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Musolff, Andreas,
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Personal name Breeze, Ruth,
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kondo, Kayo,
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vilar-Lluch, Sara,
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Permanent Location Current Location Date acquired Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 10/17/2025 RA644 .P36 2024 0199228 Books
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 10/17/2025 RA644 .P36 2024 0199229 Books

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