Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media
Abstract This paper examines the emerging cultural patterns and interpretative repertoires in reports of an impending pandemic of avian flu in the UK mass media and scientific journals at the beginning of 2005, paying particular attention to metaphors, pragmatic markers (‘risk signals’), symbolic da...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00517.x 2024-06-02T08:03:46+00:00 Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media Nerlich, Brigitte Halliday, Christopher 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00517.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9566.2007.00517.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00517.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Sociology of Health & Illness volume 29, issue 1, page 46-65 ISSN 0141-9889 1467-9566 journal-article 2007 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00517.x 2024-05-03T11:36:59Z Abstract This paper examines the emerging cultural patterns and interpretative repertoires in reports of an impending pandemic of avian flu in the UK mass media and scientific journals at the beginning of 2005, paying particular attention to metaphors, pragmatic markers (‘risk signals’), symbolic dates and scare statistics used by scientists and the media to create expectations and elicit actions. This study complements other work on the metaphorical framing of infectious disease, such as foot and mouth disease and SARS, tries to link it to developments in the sociology of expectations and applies insights from pragmatics both to the sociology of metaphor and the sociology of expectations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian flu Wiley Online Library Sociology of Health & Illness 29 1 46 65 |
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Abstract This paper examines the emerging cultural patterns and interpretative repertoires in reports of an impending pandemic of avian flu in the UK mass media and scientific journals at the beginning of 2005, paying particular attention to metaphors, pragmatic markers (‘risk signals’), symbolic dates and scare statistics used by scientists and the media to create expectations and elicit actions. This study complements other work on the metaphorical framing of infectious disease, such as foot and mouth disease and SARS, tries to link it to developments in the sociology of expectations and applies insights from pragmatics both to the sociology of metaphor and the sociology of expectations. |
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