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Face covering as a social practice: The rhetoric of anti-/masking during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greek digital public sphere

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Face covering as a social practice: The rhetoric of anti-/masking during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greek digital public sphere (EN)
Kitsiou, Roula
During the COVID-19 pandemic, early public health messages about masking led to public confusion due to conflicting statements, rendering masks a controversial sociopolitical issue. This study employs computer-mediated discourse analysis and tools developed by the discourse-historical approach to explore discourse topics and (anti-/pro-)masking rhetoric patterns in the content of (a) a Greek news video posted on a news site on Facebook, and (b) a corpus of 44 online Facebook comments posted in response to (a). The findings of the study point out that, in the context of the post-truth era, conflicting messages on public health have resulted in politicization of masking and to polarization over socially un-/acceptable behavior. Face covering thus constitutes a sociospatial practice in the process of becoming a form of politic behavior, which is contested among members of Greek society. (EN)
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Laboratory for Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Language (LESoL)
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics
Articles
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics
English
2022-06-29
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/awpel/article/view/30653
ΕΕΠΓ / LESoL (EN)
2585-2108
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Τόμ. 3 (2021): Ειδικό τεύχος: Γλώσσα, πανδημία, γλωσσολογία; 273-291 (EL)
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Vol. 3 (2021): Ειδικό τεύχος: Γλώσσα, πανδημία, γλωσσολογία; 273-291 (EN)
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