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Group publication title:

Token

Contributor:

Newman, John G. Ed.  ; Dossena, Marina. Ed.  ; Samson, Christina. Guest Ed.  ; Cecconi, Elisabetta. Guest Ed. Martini, Isabella. Guest. Ed.

Abstract:

Since the pandemic, vaccinations have become an issue that has triggered much public debate. Although several scholars have focused on the discourse of social media and traditional news media, parliamentary discourse on this issue has received little attention. Using the Hansard Corpus of speeches collected from the House of Commons between 1803 and 2005, and a recent corpus of speeches on Covid-19, we examine how vaccines have been presented in British Parliament over the years. Taking into account the main peaks in which the word vaccine occurs and observing frequency, collocates, and phraseology, we trace significant differences in discourse on vaccines, reflecting changing values and differences in the respective arguments of science and political power. While in the early 19th century the focus was on the vaccine itself, starting from the 1950s’ attention was more on research and investment. The turn of the century witnesses negative attitudes towards vaccines, while the pandemic shows an increasing need for promotional discourse.

Table of contents:

5 Dedicatoria
9 Tabula gratulatoria
11 Elisabetta Cecconi, Christina Samson and Isabella Martini, Introduction
45 Letizia Vezzosi, The propagandistic narrative in Saint Erkenwald
69 Elisabetta Cecconi, Propaganda in 17th-century pamphlets on Jamaica: A corpus-assisted discourse study (1655-1700)
95 Elisabetta Lonati, Language ideology and national propaganda in 18th-century British dictionaries of arts and sciences
125 Massimo Sturiale, Elocution, editorials, and Englishness: The role of print media in shaping accent attitudes in the long nineteenth century
147 Christina Samson, Fanning fires. A corpus assisted analysis of women’s letters during the 1857-58 Indian uprisings
171 Matylda Włodarczyk, The bluestocking in the Polish press (1830s-1890s): Othering women through code-switching, borrowing and loan translations
201 Gabriella Del Lungo and Sabrina Cappelli, Propaganda discourse in an imperial setting: The case of Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria
233 DavideMazzi, “The mask is off at last!”: Propaganda discourse in the Irish Civil War
253 BirteBös, Propaganda in TIME Magazine – A diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study
281 Roberta Facchinetti, Striking a balance between norms of impartiality and adversarialness in broadcast interviews
299 Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella, Roberto Paganelli, Vaccines discourse: A diachronic case study
325 Isabel Ermida, Ageist propaganda on social media: Disguising hate speech through mock politeness

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 299-324

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Date issued:

2025

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/14402

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Has part:

vol. 18

Type:

tekst

Access rights:

otwarty dostęp

Format:

application/pdf