COVID Semiotics
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COVID Semiotics

Magical Thinking and the Management of Meaning

Herausgegeben: Peterson, Mark Allen; Cotter, Colleen
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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. Using case studies from throughout the world - China, Egypt, Europe, Jordan, Thailand, East Jerusalem, the UK, and the United States - this volume looks at how people managed ambiguity and uncertainty, risk, and social isolation by viewing their experiences of the pandemic as other than, or alongside, those presented by voices and images representing scientifically derived knowledge. Each chapter in the volume introduces the re...