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[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 87] 2020
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Introduction

Constructing and communicating crisis discourse from cognitive, discursive and sociocultural perspectives

 | Northumbria University
Published online: 16 July 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Aims and contributions of the volume
  • 2.An overview of crisis and crisis management studies
  • 3.To study the language of crisis with a discourse and cognitive-based approach
    • 3.1Analysing the discursive aspects within crisis-related discourse
    • 3.2Exploring conceptual metaphors and frames with a discourse and cognitive-based approach
  • 4.The volume’s contributions to the studies of metaphors and frames in crisis discourse
  • 5.Overview of individual chapters’ original research and findings
  • 6.Scope and interest of the volume
  • References
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