Hesselbach R (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2020
Book Volume: 6
Pages Range: 45-66
Open Access Link: https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/24425/file/promptus_6_Hesselbach.pdf
France, Italy, and Spain are three Romance-speaking countries which – at least in Europe – have been affected to a very high degree by the consequences of the Corona pandemic. This paper examines discursive strategies on social media (Twitter and Facebook) by the three heads of government/state of the aforementioned countries – namely Emmanuel Macron (France), Giuseppe Conte (Italy), and Pedro Sánchez (Spain) – from a corpus-linguistic point of view. For this purpose, a corpus was created which contains all Twitter and Facebook messages posted by these heads of government/state from the beginning of February until the end of April 2020. By applying corpus-linguistic methods we find that all three politicians consciously use social media to sensitize, inform, and – in view of a dramatic pandemic situation – unite their respective populations behind them.
APA:
Hesselbach, R. (2020). ‹Nous sommes en guerre sanitaire› – A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis. promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik, 6, 45-66.
MLA:
Hesselbach, Robert. "‹Nous sommes en guerre sanitaire› – A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis." promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik 6 (2020): 45-66.
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