Being an expert in pandemic times: negotiating epistemic authority in a media interaction
Mariapia D'Angelo,
Franca Orletti
Abstract:Since the so-called phase one of the Coronavirus pandemic, media professionals have shown great attention to communication about the epidemic, so much so that a “glottology of COVID-19” has even been advocated to reflect on war metaphors referring to the disease. Despite media solicitations, however, reflection on communication at the time of COVID was not immediately the subject of linguistic analysis, at least in the Italian context. However, the issue of the relationship between language and culture, societ… Show more
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