Remedies against the pandemic : how politicians communicate crisis management / edited by Nadine Thielemann & Daniel Weiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thielemann, Nadine, editor.

Weiss, Daniel, 1949- editor.

Series:

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Series

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture series vol. 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies surrounding the first vaccination campaigns. Not limited to the Western world, it also offers insights from six East European countries, Uganda, India, and Palestine. Topics discussed range from inconsistent communication patterns to populist xenophobic accents, propagandistic campaigns on vaccines, the impact of authoritarian systems on crisis communication, the contrast between scientific and African folk medicine, and the use of war metaphors. By adopting a comparative perspective, this volume contributes to the growing body of literature on crisis communication during the pandemic, while highlighting important issues and perspectives that have yet to be extensively explored. Moreover, it aims to bridge the gap between linguistic and communication research on leadership communication during times of crisis, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction and overview

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

Political speeches as a tool of Covid19 crisis management?

Linguistic strategies to present complexity in a time of crisis

The ‘Covid-19 presidential genre’

Section 2. Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure, and diverting one’s course

Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context

Shambolic blunder

Top-down meets bottom-up

Section 3. Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic for other purposes

The social media campaign for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

Trump’s framing of Covid-19 as a war and conspiracy theories

Exploiting the crisis

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Thielemann, Nadine Remedies Against the Pandemic

ISBN:

9789027249579

OCLC:

1389613442