@article{Hesselbach2020,
  author    = {Hesselbach, Robert},
  title     = {<<Nous sommes en guerre sanitaire contre le COVID-19>> - A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian, and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis},
  series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244251},
  pages     = {45-66},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {France, Italy, and Spain are three Romance-speaking countries which - at least in Europe - have been affected to a very high degree by the consequences of the Corona pandemic. This paper examines discursive strategies on social media (Twitter and Facebook) by the three heads of government/state of the aforementioned countries - namely Emmanuel Macron (France), Giuseppe Conte (Italy), and Pedro S{\´a}nchez (Spain)- from a corpuslinguistic point of view. For this purpose, a corpus was created which contains all Twitter and Facebook messages posted by these heads of government/state from the beginning of February until the end of April 2020. By applying corpus-linguistic methods we find that all three politicians consciously use social media to sensitize, inform, and - in view of a dramatic pandemic situation - unite their respective populations behind them.},
  language  = {en}
}