In:The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 346] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 15 August 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.346.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.346.toc
Table of contents
AcknowledgementsVII
Chapter 1.“When bad things happen to people”: Cultural pragmatics and cross-linguistic perspectives on danger1
Carsten Levisen
Zhengdao Ye
Chapter 2.Society in danger: Samfundssind ‘community spirit’ and the cultural pragmatics of Danish pandemic discourse23
Carsten Levisen
Chapter 3.A Japanese pragmatics of danger: The rise of jishuku
‘self-discipline’ and dōchō-atsuryoku ‘peer-pressure’ as pandemic keywords in Japan41
Yuko Asano-Cavanagh
Robert F. Cavanagh
Chapter 4.New social categories in dangerous times: Unidad familiar, conviviente, and grupo burbuja in Spain’s “New Normal”64
Mónica Aznárez-Mauleón
Chapter 5.Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes: The pragmatics of danger and the discourse of heroism86
Lauren Sadow
Katie Cox
Chapter 6.Emergency messaging and dangerous translations: Case studies of Australian COVID-19 Discourse107
Ida Stevia Diget
Chapter 7.Language learning in times of danger: Narratives of confinamiento/confinement in Spanish – English bilingual online conversations
during lockdown135
Susana S. Fernández
Christine Appel
Chapter 8.Planet in danger! Climate emotions in English: A cultural pragmatics study of eco-anxiety, grief and distress158
Helen Bromhead
Chapter 9.Alla yustur: Danger-thwarting divine interjectional phrase in Jish Arabic175
Sandy Habib
Chapter 10.The cultural pragmatics of “danger” in Chinese
political discourse194
political discourse194
Zhengdao Ye
Chapter 11.Security, Sicherheit, ānquán: Similar-but-different key concepts in English, German and Chinese217
Cliff Goddard
Tine-Marie Junker
Zhengdao Ye
Epilogue236
Carsten Levisen
Zhengdao Ye
Index
