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A Micro-Diachronic Corpus Investigation of Violence-Related Metaphors Used to Frame China during the COVID-19 Pandemic 对COVID-19大流行期间用于描述中国的暴力隐喻的微观-时间语料库调查

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-iori

Ilaria Iori

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“A Pandemic within the Pandemic”: A CDA of Social Media Comments on Domestic Violence during COVID-19 "大流行中的大流行"：COVID-19 期间社交媒体对家庭暴力评论的 CDA 分析

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-napa

Antonella Napolitano

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COVID-19 Crisis Management in Newspaper Articles: A Diachronic Analysis COVID-19 报纸文章中的危机管理：异时空分析

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-deno

Olga Denti

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The Gender-Differentiated Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and Social Inequalities in the UK: An Exploration of Gendered Themes within Private and Public Discourse and Policy Implications COVID-19 大流行对英国健康和社会不平等的性别差异影响：探讨私人和公共言论中的性别主题及政策影响

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-ellm

Marion Ellison

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Internet Usage, YouTube, and Conspiracy-Mindedness in the United States 美国的互联网使用情况、YouTube 和阴谋论思想

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-olsl

Laura Olson

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Netlore, Memes and the Pandemic: Adjusting Virtually to the New Normal 网络、备忘录和流行病：以虚拟方式适应新常态

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-gima

Michela Giordano, M. Marongiu

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A Corpus-Based CDA of Populist Politicians’ Strategies and Public Response on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic 基于语料库的CDA，研究COVID-19大流行期间民粹主义政治家在推特上的策略和公众反应

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-cifa

Andrea Cifalinò, Ester Di Silvestro, Marco Venuti

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Sense-Making/Giving during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Multi-Method Study of Health Podcasting in Australia and the U.S. COVID-19 危机期间的感知生成/给予：澳大利亚和美国健康播客的多种方法研究

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-magr

Rosita Maglie, Matthew Groicher

{"title":"Sense-Making/Giving during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Multi-Method Study of Health Podcasting in Australia and the U.S.","authors":"Rosita Maglie, Matthew Groicher","doi":"10.7358/lcm-2023-002-magr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/lcm-2023-002-magr","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sense-making and sense-giving represent an issue of communication (Weick et al. 2005). The former is associated with emotional processes of crisisassessment and cognitive processes of justifying and seeking social acceptance for decisions (Søderberg and Vaara 2003), while the latter is the framework communicated to the public to facilitate their understanding and subsequently motivate certain actions (Maitlis and Christianson 2014). The medium used to communicate this framework varies depending on the relationship an authority figure has with their audience. Analysis of this communication and its medium has focused primarily on political leaders through the lens of the Charismatic, Ideological and Pragmatic (CIP) model (Crayne and Medeiros 2020), and of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) (Wodak 2021). This study uses both the CIP model and the DHA via Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) to examine influential physicians communicating the COVID-19 crisis in health podcasts in the U.S. and Australia. It therefore interprets the healthrelated information they disseminate, and how this information is framed and given meaning, to develop a perspective on how and why these podcasters differ in how they make sense of the crisis and, consequently, appeal to a broader audience.","PeriodicalId":502965,"journal":{"name":"Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)","volume":"20 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139166886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Boosting Booster Trust: Negotiating a Jungle of Misinformation 增强信任：与错误信息丛林谈判

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-bono

Marina Bondi, J. Nocella

{"title":"Boosting Booster Trust: Negotiating a Jungle of Misinformation","authors":"Marina Bondi, J. Nocella","doi":"10.7358/lcm-2023-002-bono","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/lcm-2023-002-bono","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news are available across diverse media, causing distrust in governmental and health institutions. In this context, the use of language has been of great interest in research, specifically in health communication, on social media, and in traditional news media. Our aim is to analyse and compare how the successive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been presented in different forms of knowledge communication, namely scientific research papers and the media, including online magazines and newspaper articles. By focusing on frequency, collocates, and phraseology of booster and dose, we trace differences in how boosters are presented in both lay and professional contexts of communication. Scientific discourse shows a marked preference for the more neutral and cautious term dose, which is also associated with the description of administration procedures. News discourse is characterised both by a higher incidence of the word booster (implying a reinforcement of an already existing immunity) and by the choice of referring to the institutional voices recommending vaccines. Results shed light on how different discourses manifest their perceived functions through lexical choice, as well as how news discourse uses and reinterprets scientific discourse in the light of what is relevant to the audience.","PeriodicalId":502965,"journal":{"name":"Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139166556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flouting the Truth: A Pragmatic Study of Conspiracy Beliefs at the Time of COVID-19 蔑视真相：对 COVID-19 事件发生时阴谋论信仰的务实研究

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2023-002-falg

Gaetano Falco

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