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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:24:10
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: (De)Constructing Corona: Asiru, Orwenjo (eds.)

 


Title: (De)Constructing Corona 
Subtitle: The Language of Conspiracy, Power and Indifference in Covid-19 Health
Discourses 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Communication 19  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   https://lincom-shop.eu/
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/LSC-19-DeConstructing-Corona/en 


Editor: Hameed Tunde Asiru
Editor: Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo

Paperback: ISBN:  9783969391341 Pages: 261 Price: Europe EURO 76.80


Abstract:

(De)Constructing Corona 
The Language of Conspiracy, Power and Indifference in Covid-19 Health
Discourses

Hameed Tunde Asiru & Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo (eds.)
Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Technical University, Kenya

The media have greatly played a critical role as avenue of ‘massive infodemic’
of false and accurate information about the novel coronavirus. The popular
beliefs are the existence of some secret plots which the powerful elites hide
from the public, purposely for political manipulation, population control and
social control. These beliefs find expressions in conspiracy theories. They
emerge when tragic event such as the pandemic is explained by rejecting the
accepted narrative. They are, therefore, driven by a strong desire to unveil
social forces that are self-relevant, important, and threatening (Reid, 2010).
To further strengthen the conspiracy theories, many people across the globe
have become indifferent to the pandemic. The strategies by the World Health
Organization and governments of different nations to curtail the spread of the
pandemic also indicate some levels of power usage.  Against this backdrop,
this book explores the affordances in linguistic and literary studies in
unveiling the overt and covert ideological beliefs which reflect conspiracy,
power and indifference in the pandemic discourse. Essentially, it interrogates
various issues such as biopolitical approach to the discourse of conspiracy,
lockdown and reopening, media (mis)representation of the pandemic, language of
appraisal and power, coping strategies, vaccination hesitancy and many more.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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