COVID and the South African Family: Cyril Ramaphosa, President or father?

Hunt, Sally

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100541

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“…The other studies examine various media subgenres. For instance, first, the primary focus of Hunt's research is on the broadcast presidential address made by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the country in the first few months of COVID-19 (Hunt, 2021) with many trying to win compliance and support via a range of channels of communication. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, faced the same challenge.…”

Section: Government Communication Regarding Covid-19 Through State Le...mentioning

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Government Crisis and Risk Communication on Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper

Kurniasari,

Syed Mukhiar,

Saad

2023

JPMM

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This study present a conceptual paper on government communication about public health crisis, which is COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, a conceptual framework for government crisis communication is offered after a careful review and analysis of the relevant literature. The study is possible to arrange the research on crisis communication to be related based on the application of the theory and the model. Having a thorough understanding of crisis communication may enable practitioners or crisis communicators to develop innovative approaches to successfully involve stakeholders, such as citizens. In conclusion, this conceptual work might be seen as starting point for other scholars who want to particularly investigate crisis communication, including disasters both natural and man-made.

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Government Crisis and Risk Communication on Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper

Kurniasari,

Syed Mukhiar,

Saad

2023

JPMM

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“…Since the outbreak of coronavirus, various studies have looked at pronoun use in political discourse related to the pandemic. Hunt (2021) has identified the use of the collective (or "inclusive") we in speeches by South African President Cyril Ramphosa as being instrumental in the construction of the metaphorical notion of the nation as a family for the purpose of promoting national unity in a time of crisis. Researching the UK political briefings from Downing Street, Williams and Wright (2022) identified the varying levels of responsibility placed upon both politicians and public via a transitivity analysis of processes appearing with exclusive and inclusive we; that is, the we that refers simply to the speaker and their associates, and the we that is expanded to include the audience.…”

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A trinocular view of the auxiliary verb will in COVID-19 briefings from Westminster and Holyrood

Beauchamp

Gardner

2023

LangCT

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This corpus assisted investigation of the auxiliary verb will examines the various modalities and functions realised in the register of political briefings given by Scottish (Holyrood) and United Kingdom (Westminster) representatives throughout the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. A trinocular approach is taken to consider the lexicogrammatical environment of will (from around), the discourse semantics of will (from above) and the relationship between contraction and meaning (from below). Our trinocular approach with a focus on will as a highly frequent item with great meaning potential has enabled us to gain insights about the nature of how politicians used modality to persuade, organise and empathise within coronavirus media briefings and thus shape their public personas as leaders.

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“…This inclusive 'we' sits alongside noun phrases like 'our country/people/ society/nation' and 'our eff orts' as well as uses of 'let us' "to emphasise group membership … and spur individuals on to act in concert with others in the interests of their country" (ibid., p. 11). Hunt (2021) concludes that "[b]y positioning himself as one with the rest of the country, Ramaphosa increases the sense of unity in the group" (p. 10) while at the same time issuing quasiparental guidance. She interprets this discursive reduction in power and distance as an attempt to ensure compliance despite social control measures, e.g., curfews and travel bans, being associated with the apartheid past of South Africa.…”

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Crisis communications at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the Ghanaian president’s fourth update on coronavirus

Koller

2023

Legon J. Hum.

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The Covid-19 pandemic was a testbed for crisis communication, leading to recommendations on how to meet communicative goals and several individual case studies. This paper contributes to the latter by engaging in a detailed three-level analysis of an early, pivotal address to the nation by Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo. In terms of infection rates and deaths, Ghana has been much less severely impacted by the pandemic than other countries, making it worthwhile to look at the role of official communications. This study investigates how the president addressed the public at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, in what ways the linguistic features of his address reflected the specific political context, and what potential impact his language use had on the behaviour of the public. Findings show that linguistic and, to a lesser extent, visual elements represent the president as powerful, authoritative, but somewhat detached from the audience. However, this is balanced by direct appeals to the same audience, whose cooperation he seeks to win rather than enforce. This balance reflects the political and socio-cultural context of the text, as further evidenced by comments on the address on Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page.

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COVID and the South African Family: Cyril Ramaphosa, President or father?

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Government Crisis and Risk Communication on Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper

Government Crisis and Risk Communication on Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper

A trinocular view of the auxiliary verb will in COVID-19 briefings from Westminster and Holyrood

Crisis communications at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the Ghanaian president’s fourth update on coronavirus

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