<<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
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- 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 byFrance, 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.…
Autor(en): | Robert HesselbachORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244251 |
Dokumentart: | Artikel / Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift |
Institute der Universität: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes / der Zeitschrift (Deutsch): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
Band / Jahrgang: | 6 |
Seitenangabe: | 45-66 |
Originalveröffentlichung / Quelle: | promptus 6 (2020), S. 45-66 |
Allgemeine fachliche Zuordnung (DDC-Klassifikation): | 8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur |
Freie Schlagwort(e): | Covid-19; coronavirus; corpus linguistics; lexical co-occurrences; political discourse; social media |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 06.09.2021 |
Sammlungen: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 6 / Artikel / articles |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |