Müller, Marcus (2021)
Necessity, Norm and Missing Knowledge : What Modals Tell Us About Crisis Response in German COVID-19 Reporting.
In: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 51 (3)
doi: 10.1007/s41244-021-00212-4
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This study examines modal verbs in German press coverage of COVID-19 during the first phase of the pandemic. The data basis is an 18-million-word corpus of newspaper articles. For analysis, a sample is drawn from the total number of modal verbs in the corpus and these are categorised according to their discourse function. The corresponding annotated data are analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. For this purpose, the study draws back to Kratzer’s concept of conversational backgrounds. It turns out that in addition to normative speech backgrounds, goal formulations can be found above all. Normative backgrounds are evoked, on the one hand, to address official rules and their effects and, on the other hand in appeals and demands, to refer to social norms that are assumed as common ground. The fact that teleological backgrounds play a relatively large role indicates that the normalisation perspective is of great importance as a regulative in the crisis discourse. More positive than negative determining factors are indicated and uncertainty markings occur comparatively rarely. This points to successful crisis communication in this discourse phase.
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Erschienen: | 2021 | ||||
Autor(en): | Müller, Marcus | ||||
Art des Eintrags: | Bibliographie | ||||
Titel: | Necessity, Norm and Missing Knowledge : What Modals Tell Us About Crisis Response in German COVID-19 Reporting | ||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
Publikationsjahr: | September 2021 | ||||
Ort: | Cham | ||||
Verlag: | Springer International Publishing | ||||
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: | Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik | ||||
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: | 51 | ||||
(Heft-)Nummer: | 3 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s41244-021-00212-4 | ||||
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | This study examines modal verbs in German press coverage of COVID-19 during the first phase of the pandemic. The data basis is an 18-million-word corpus of newspaper articles. For analysis, a sample is drawn from the total number of modal verbs in the corpus and these are categorised according to their discourse function. The corresponding annotated data are analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. For this purpose, the study draws back to Kratzer’s concept of conversational backgrounds. It turns out that in addition to normative speech backgrounds, goal formulations can be found above all. Normative backgrounds are evoked, on the one hand, to address official rules and their effects and, on the other hand in appeals and demands, to refer to social norms that are assumed as common ground. The fact that teleological backgrounds play a relatively large role indicates that the normalisation perspective is of great importance as a regulative in the crisis discourse. More positive than negative determining factors are indicated and uncertainty markings occur comparatively rarely. This points to successful crisis communication in this discourse phase. |
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Freie Schlagworte: | Modal Verbs, Crisis Communication, COVID-19 Discourse, Corpus Linguistics | ||||
Zusätzliche Informationen: | Part of 1 collection: Covid-19 Research in Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin, Gesundheit 800 Literatur > 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft |
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Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 02 Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften 02 Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 02 Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Germanistik - Digitale Linguistik |
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Letzte Änderung: | 02 Aug 2024 13:16 | ||||
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