TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hesselbach, Robert
T1  - <<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
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - 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 Sánchez (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.
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - coronavirus
KW  - Covid-19
KW  - political discourse
KW  - social media
KW  - lexical  co-occurrences
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244251
VL  - 6
ER  -