Viral Language
Analysing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Public Discourse
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Viral Language considers a range of different types of public communication and their discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to investigate health communication. The authors introduce and apply a range of approaches informed by linguistic theory to investigate experiences of the pandemic across a variety of public contexts. In doing so, they demonstrate how experiences of health and illness can be shaped by political messaging, scientific research, news articles and advertising.
Through a series of case studies of Covid-related texts, the authors consider aspects of language instruction, information and innovation, showcasing the breadth of topics that can be studied as part of health communication. Furthermore, each case study provides practical guidance on how to carry out investigations using social media texts, how to analyse metaphor, how to track language innovation and how to work with text and images.
Viral Language is critical reading for postgraduate and upper undergraduate students of applied linguistics and health communication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Health promotion and public engagement on Twitter
- 3 Politiciansā use of metaphor
- 4 Key features of scientific writing on Covid-19
- 5 Investigating āthe scienceā in news discourse
- 6 Language change in news on the web: Lexical innovation in response to Covid-19
- 7 Advertising in the time of coronavirus
- 8 Concluding remarks
- Index