In:Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 102] 2023
► pp. 1–17
Introduction and overview
Published online: 24 July 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.102.int
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.102.int
Article outline
- 1.Section: Different politicians’ communicative strategies of presenting their pandemic management
- 2.Section: Facing criticism and resistance, communicating failure, and diverting one’s course
- 3.Section: Exploiting the communicative management of the pandemic for other purposes
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