2024
DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1320228
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Constructing images of HCWs in Chinese government Weibo posts: a discourse-historical approach

Xueyu Wang,
Zheng Zheng

Abstract: This study examines the image construction of front-line healthcare workers (HCWs) in Chinese government Weibo (microblogs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we rely on a discourse-historical approach to analyze 1,510 posts collected from an influential government Weibo account, @healthchina (健康中国), during the first wave of the pandemic to investigate the diverse images of HCWs constructed, the discursive strategies employed, and the pragma-linguistic devices used by @healthchina. The data analyses f… Show more

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