Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19

Jarvis, Lee

doi:10.1057/s41293-021-00180-w

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“…First, it has reinforced the idea that the time of crisis is exceptionally complex given the unknown characteristics of the virus and its rapid spread. In this way, the pandemic is constructed as a temporary challenge (Jarvis, 2022). This leads to the message that all social layers should unite in a common goal, which is the control of the pandemic.…”

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Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis

Atria

Alfaro

Tapia

et al. 2022

International Sociology

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Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have had to announce health, economic, financial, and social measures. The way in which these actors communicate is crucial and points to the collective meanings that are transmitted when dealing with the pandemic. The discourses used are designed with different frameworks and narratives to have broad appeal, so as to convince the public about the government’s performance in managing the crisis and to obtain respect and obedience. Based on a qualitative analysis of 238 official speeches from five continents delivered between March and May 2020, this article contributes to the analysis of the pandemic with regard to two axes that underlie the speeches in other crises of this magnitude: appeals for solidarity and references to a war context. The results show that in this pandemic, the discourses have been deployed through these axes, reinforcing collective memories and national identities as sources to activate patriotic feelings and sustain implemented measures.

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Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis

Atria

Alfaro

Tapia

et al. 2022

International Sociology

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“…The speeches analysed are identified as follows: Research into inaugural speeches is fairly consolidated, in particular the analysis of the speeches given by American presidents (Pramadya, 2021;Jegede, 2020;Kazemian & Hashemi, 2014;Taylor, 2021) (Note 4). Less literature exists on lesser-known figures, e.g., presidents of European institutions or prime ministers of single countries, whereas more relevance has been given to some issues dealt with by country leaders such as the management of Covid emergency (Jaworska & Vasquez, 2022;Musolf, 2022;Jarvis, 2022;Ward, 2021), Brexit (Wodak, 2018;Krzyżanowski, 2019;Partington & Zuccato, 2018;Schnapper, 2018), climate change (Willis, 2017)and others themes. Inaugural speeches have been addressed less (Nota 5).…”

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Inaugural Speeches by Conservative Prime Ministers From 2010 to 2022: A Consolidated Rhetoric

Pierini¹

2023

IJEL

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The Conservative Party has been in power for more than 10 years in Great Britain, from 2010 until the time of writing this document and five Prime Ministers have succeeded from David Cameron to Rishi Sunak, now in office. The document analyzes and seeks to explain how Conservative leaders have informed the country and communicated with the people every time each of them took office and gave his inaugural speech. Through speech analysis I worked on each inaugural speech and tried to explain their differences and similarities even though the genre of inaugural speeches doesn't leave much space for the speaker to express their policies and measures in detail because it only lasts a handful of minutes and can give a simple indication of what the new PM will do. Surely the most interesting aspect of this type of discourse is the PM's sense of leadership and decisiveness which may or may not emerge from the words, syntactic structures and rhetorical figures they use to communicate their ideas to the country.

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“…Out of 149 quarantine stories, 96 (64.4%) were short (comprising one or a few sentences), fragmented, and open-ended, featuring social media stories (Page, 2012). Unlike the official discourse examined by Jarvis (2021), such short stories 'can be easily missed out by an analytical lens' (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou, 2008: 381), even if they have no shortage of relevance in subject matter (Page, 2018). We regarded these stories as breaking news because the events described were mundane, characterised by recency and iterativity (Georgakopoulou, 2017).…”

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Small stories of a key moment: Exploring discursive construction in digital quarantine stories

Ho¹,

Gu²

2023

Discourse Studies

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This study examines the narratives presented on Quarantine Stories, an online platform where users posted their home-quarantine experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the recurrent themes in quarantine stories and how tellers constructed their lives in isolation. Quarantine stories submitted worldwide were examined via semantic tag and concordance analyses to identify their recurrent themes and narrative elements. The results reveal that digital storytelling allowed tellers and readers to form a community of shared support beyond spatiotemporal boundaries. Most quarantine stories were characterised by fragmentation and simultaneity, whereas others had Labovian narrative structures. The recurrent themes found (quarantine duration, favourite quarantine spots and self-healing) demonstrated how tellers used time stamps to create meaning. The present study contributes to social media research by suggesting the further categorisation of breaking stories into major and minor and by regarding self-reflection as a sub-type of evaluation.

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Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis

Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis

Inaugural Speeches by Conservative Prime Ministers From 2010 to 2022: A Consolidated Rhetoric

Small stories of a key moment: Exploring discursive construction in digital quarantine stories

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