CORONAVIRUS DISCOURSE OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE GUISE OF REASSURANCE: WE STAND TOGETHER ONLY WHEN WE DO NOT STAND APART

Željka Babić, Emir Muhić, Dijana Tica

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP2103409B
First page
409
Last page
420

Abstract


The novel coronavirus communicative modalities are ever-emergent and infinitely adaptable systems of the new normal state of mind and play. By focusing on specificities found in the corpus extracted from three leading Bosnian and Herzegovinian (B&H) newspapers, the paper attempts to merge the predominant theoretical insight into a mixture of conceptual and critical theories of language. The focus of the paper is two-fold. The first one is targeted at testing the extracted theoretical posits on the linguistic corpora. The second aims at challenging the notions of togetherness and separateness in the B&H society by mirroring them through the prism of Covid-19 newspaper reports. The results of the corpus analysis suggest that it is still possible to draw a line between the notions in accordance with the specific geographical regions from which the data are drawn.

Keywords

coronavirus, discourse, uncertainty, threat, togetherness, apartness

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