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COVID Semiotics
Magical Thinking and the Management of Meaning
Erstverkaufstag: 04.10.2024
Langbeschreibung
This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: COVID-19, Semiotics and Magical Thinking, 2. Chapter One. "Culling the Herd": Discourses of Covid-19 Denial AMong the Irish at Home and Abroad, 3. Chapter Two. "Crown Jesus, not the virus!": COVID denial and rightwing nationalist populism in Poland, 4. Chapter Three. Covid-19 and the Middle East: Social media analysis across political imaginaries in 3 countries, 5. Chapter Four. The use of memes in communication about COVID-19 in a Chinese online community, 6. Chapter Five. My Body My Choice: Magical Thinking and Discourses of Bodily Autonomy in Anti-Mask Rhetoric, 7. Chapter Six. Signs of reassurance and collective responsibility in English public retail space, 8. Conclusion: Semiotics in the Classroom and Beyond
Mark Allen Peterson is Professor of Anthropology and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His work focuses on media, consumption, and globalization. He has done fieldwork in Egypt, India, and the United States.
ISBN-13:
9781032462424
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.10.2024
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Colleen Cotter
Format:
229x152x0 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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