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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Creating and Contesting Meaning in a Global Health Crisis -- Ikuko Nakane, Claire Maree, and Michael C. Ewing Chapter 2 Martyrs in Masks: the "Battle-to-Saviour" Story Grammar of COVID-19 Coverage in Chinese Communist Party Media -- Susanna Ackroyd Chapter 3 What Has Machine Translation "Mis-Translated" about COVID-19? What "Mistakes" Can Tell us About Humanity that Machines Cannot -- Wayne Wen-chun Liang, Ester S.M. Leung, and Chun Hin Tse Chapter 4 From "Selfless Hospitality" to "Get Out": Disrupting the 2020 Games, Claire Maree, Chapter 5 Political Leaders' Discourse Addressing "Corona Discrimination" in Japan -- Ikuko Nakane, Chapter 6 (Im)politeness of Masked and Non-Masked Faces in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Japan and Australia,Jun Ohashi, Chapter 7 COVID-19 and the Construction of Wuli (We): Marriage-Migrant Women and Care Discourses in South Korea -- Mi Yung Park and Hakyoon Lee Chapter 8 Movement Control Orders or "Making Confusing Orders"? Discourses of Confusion About Lockdowns in a Malaysian News Portal -- Richard Powell and Zarina Othman Chapter 9 Taiwan Inside and Out: Redefining the Self during the Pandemic -- Craig A. Smith and Dayton Lekner Chapter 10 Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Chinese Translation of Government COVID-19 Health Information in Australia -- Lachlan Thomas-Walters, Suqin Qian, and Delia Lin Complete List of Works Cited |
| Summary |
Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19 makes a unique contribution to research on meaning making in times of crisis. Using diverse analytical approaches to the study of languages in societies from the Asia-Pacific region, this volume explores the struggles over national identity and manifestations of socio-political issues in the context of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter interrogates |
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Film, Media, and Communication |
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FMC |
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Health and Medicine |
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HEALTH & MED |
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Language Studies |
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LANG |
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Media Studies |
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MEDIA |
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COVID-19, Asia, Communication, language, identity, disruption, crisis discourse |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2023) |
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Sociolinguistics -- Asia
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Asia -- Influence
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Communication studies.
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Media studies.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Contagious.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Sociolinguistics.
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Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics.
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Communication studies.
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Asia.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nakane, Ikuko, editor.
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Maree, Claire, 1968- editor.
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Ewing, Michael C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9789400604667 |
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9400604661 |
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