COVID Semiotics (eBook, PDF)

Magical Thinking and the Management of Meaning
Redaktion: Peterson, Mark Allen; Cotter, Colleen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040113769
• Artikelnr.: 72253739

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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