Back to Search
Start Over
The Language of Crisis in the ‘Virocene’
- Source :
- Iperstoria, Iss 23 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona, 2024.
-
Abstract
- The article is part of an ongoing research project investigating the climate and health nexus in EU policy-making discourse and communication (Bevitori and Russo 2023). Combining the theoretical and methodological tools of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics (inter alia, Baker 2023; Baker and McEnery 2015; Mautner 2015), the research for this study extends its scope by focusing on a specialized corpus, purposefully compiled to represent EU public communication discourse in the pandemic era (2020-2022). It draws on recent work on the politics and management of the Covid-19 virus as the expression of a wider politics and discourse of crisis (Krzyżanowski et al. 2023; Wodak 2022; 2021; Lipscy 2020) to investigate legitimation and consensus-building strategies in the discursive construction of the Covid-19 and climate change crises.
Details
- Language :
- English, Italian
- ISSN :
- 22814582
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Iperstoria
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b0773d6e86f64758a49d307f646cdf5a
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2024.i23.1444