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Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana

At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics
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This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises. The volume critically reflects on the significance of communicative dimensions, understood here as the effects of communication on bidirectional flows between senders and receivers, on many different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Grounded in transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives and drawing on data from the Ghanian experience, the book showcases how important it is for local factors to be taken into account by governments, medical professionals, social commentators, and everyday people in communicating during a pandemic, when local cultures, histories, and infrastructures all play a role in shaping communication and the dissemination of knowledge. Chapter examines such topics as the role of metaphor, the use of social media in disinformation, and the range of strategies and channels employed by stakeholders. This volume centers the pandemic experience in a Global South context, demonstrating the importance of a greater focus on local contexts in understanding communication in a time of pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, crisis communication, health communication, discourse analysis, and African studies.

Author Biography:

Nancy Henaku is Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Ghana. G. Edzordzi Agbozo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA. Mark Nartey is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, UK.
Release date Australia
September 29th, 2023
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by G. Edzordzi Agbozo
  • Edited by Mark Nartey
  • Edited by Nancy Henaku
Illustrations
7 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
254
ISBN-13
9781032360461
Product ID
36559921

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