Volume 47 (2022) - Special Issue

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• The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech

  Massimiliano Demata, Natalia Knoblock, Marianna Lya Zummo

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• Title Page

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• Table of Contents

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• Introduction

  Massimiliano Demata, Natalia Knoblock, Marianna Lya Zummo

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• Dramatising Crisis. Rhetorical Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Right-Wing Populist Leaders in the USA and UK

  Maria Ivana Lorenzetti

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• Anti-vaccination Conspiracy Theories and Theorists: Analysis of a Corpus of Offline and Online Argumentative Texts in the Guardian and the Daily Mail

  Carlotta Fiammenghi

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• Science-related Populism and Social Actors in Martin Geddes’ Early Representations of COVID-19. A Case Study

  Anna Anselmo

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• “Don’t Mask the Truth”. Analyzing Anti-Mask Discourses Advanced by a ‘Trusted Expert’ and Activists Acting On- and Offline

  Jacqueline Aiello

  87-113

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• Discourses of Public Health-related Controversies. A Comparison between the Conspiracist Video Plandemic and the VIOXX Medical Scandal

  Virginia Zorzi

  115-143

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• Institutional Communication Concerning the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Critical Discourse Analysis of WHO Director-General’s Speeches

  Stefania D'Avanzo

  145-157

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• Rumor has it. The COVID-19 Infodemic as the Repository of Conspiracy

  Margaret Rasulo

  159-190

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• A Mixed-method Corpus Approach to the COVID-19 Vaccination Debate

  Claudia Roberta Combei

  191-223

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• The Racist Pandemic. A Semantico-Pragmatic Study of Anti-Asian Overtones in COVID-19-related Twitter Discourse

  Ewelina Prazmo, Rafal Augustyn

  225-243

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• Pour une relecture de la querelle du XVIIIe siècle sur l’inoculation. Analyse des procédés discursifs utilisés par Diderot

  Nataša Raschi

  245-258

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• Unhealthy COVID-19 Communication: A Morphosynctactic Analysis of German AfD Party’s Counter- discourse

  Sabrina Bertollo

  259-295

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• Frames Featuring in Epidemiological Crisis Communication. A Frame-Semantic Analysis of Pandemic Crisis Communication in Multilingual Belgium

  Vince Liégeois, Jolien Mathysen

  297-329

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• Tackling Online Disinformation. The Construction of ‘Trustworthiness’ and ‘Best Practices’ in the European Commission Discourse on COVID-19

  Giulia Adriana Pennisi

  331-360

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• COVID-19 and the Global Health Threat of “V accine Hesitancy”. Analyzing anti-vax Discourses in Brazilian Portuguese and in German on Twitter

  Bernadette Hofer-Bonfim, Litiane Barbosa Macedo

  361-394

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• Colophone

  395-396

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