CHAPTER 1 Creating and Contesting Meaning in a Global Health Crisis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface and Acknowledgements 7
4. CHAPTER 1 Creating and Contesting Meaning in a Global Health Crisis 9
5. CHAPTER 2 Martyrs in Masks : the “Battle-Hero-Saviour” Story Grammar of COVID-19 Coverage in Chinese Communist Party Media 25
6. CHAPTER 3 What Has Machine Translation “Mis-Translated” about COVID-19? What “Mistakes” Can Tell Us about Humanity that Machines Cannot 43
7. CHAPTER 4 From “Selfless Hospitality” to “Get Out”: Disrupting the 2020 Games 63
8. CHAPTER 5 Political Leaders’ Discourse Addressing “Corona Discrimination” in Japan 79
9. CHAPTER 6 (Im)politeness of Masked and Non-Masked Faces in the COVID-19 Pandemic : Japan and Australia 99
10. CHAPTER 7 COVID-19 and the Construction of Wuli (We) : Marriage-Migrant Women and Care Discourses in South Korea 123
11. CHAPTER 8 Movement Control Orders or “Making Confusing Orders”? Discourses of Confusion about Lockdowns in a Malaysian News Portal 141
12. CHAPTER 9 Taiwan Inside and Out: Redefining the Self during the Pandemic 161
13. CHAPTER 10 Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Chinese Translation of Government COVID-19 Health Information in Australia 173
14. Complete List of Works Cited 195
15. Index 217