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Language, Visualizations and Concepts - On the Evolution of the Corona Discourse

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr and Dr and Dr Sebastian Schuol, Simone Hespers, Katrin Götz-Votteler

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Communication

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

This project seeks to investigate which types of linguistic realizations, visualizations and modes of communication have been used to pass on scientific knowledge about SARS-CoV2 and Covid-19. Taking the perspective of evolutionary thinking, it examines which strategies have succeeded in this process applying the evolutionary stages variation, selection and adaptation to the analyzed material.