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Beschreibung

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.

Über den Autor

Mark Allen Peterson is Professor of Anthropology and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His work focuses on media, consumption, and globalization. He has done fieldwork in Egypt, India, and the United States.

Colleen Cotter is Professor of Media Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research areas include news media language, endangered languages (Irish), US/ UK newsroom ethnography, and the performative dimensions of public messaging and language style across modalities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: COVID-19, Semiotics and Magical Thinking, 2. Chapter One. "Culling the Herd": Discourses of Covid-19 Denial Among the Irish at Home and Abroad., 3. Chapter Two. "Crown Jesus, not the virus!": COVID denial and right-wing nationalist populism in Poland, 4. Chapter Three. Covid-19 and the Middle East: Social media analysis across political imaginaries in 3 countries., 5. Chapter Four. The use of memes in communication about COVID-19 in a Chinese online community., 6. Chapter Five. My Body My Choice: Magical Thinking and Discourses of Bodily Autonomy in Anti-Mask Rhetoric., 7. Chapter Six. Signs of reassurance and collective responsibility in English public retail space., 8. Conclusion: Semiotics in the Classroom and Beyond

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032462424
ISBN-10: 1032462426
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Cotter, Colleen
Peterson, Mark Allen
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 153 x 228 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Colleen Cotter (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,288 kg
Artikel-ID: 129075236

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