List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch Part I: The Discourse of Authority in a Global Crisis: Who Defines (If There Is) a Pandemic? 1. COVID-19 Press Conferences Across Time: World Health Organization vs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dennis Tay 2. Exploring the Multimodal Representation of COVID-19 on the Official Homepage of World Health Organization (WHO): A Social-Semiotic Approach, Amir H. Y. Salama 3. COVID-19 Representations in Political Statements: A Corpus-Driven Analysis, Alexandra Papamanoli and Themis P. Kaniklidou 4. How Autocrats Cope with the Corona Challenge: Belarus vs. Russia, Daniel Weiss 5. Counting Coronavirus: Mathematical Language in The UK Response to Covid-19, Lee Jarvis Part II: The Discourse of Crisis Management: How is the Public Meant to and How Does it Understand the Pandemic? 6. “Coronavirus Explainers” for Public Communication of Science: Everything the Public Needs to Know, María José Luzón 7. ‘COVID Warriors: An Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Children’s Books to Help them Understand Covid-19, María Muelas-Gil 8. Corona in the Linguistic Landscape, Neele Mundt and Frank Polzenhagen 9. Political Comedy and the Challenges of Public Communication during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Corpus-Based Study of Last Week Tonight’s Coverage of the Pandemic, Virginia Zorzi 10. Social Reaction to a New Health Threat: The Perception of the COVID-19 Health Crisis by British and Spanish Readerships, Sara Vilar-Lluch 11. How to Pass this Exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through Metaphors in Turkish Online Public Discourse, Melike Bas and Esranur Efeoglu-Özcan Part III: The Discourse of ‘War’ against the Pandemic: How to ‘Fight’ COVID-19? 12. When Wars are Good: Emotional Unpacking Anti-Coronavirus Measures, Molly Xie Pan and Joanna Zhuoan Chen 13. Legitimising a Global Fight for a Shared Future: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Reportage of COVID-19 in China Daily, Yating Yu 14. Metaphoric Framings of Fighting COVID-19, Mariana Neagu 15. From an Invisible Enemy to a Football Match with the Virus: Adjusting the COVID-19 Pandemic Metaphors to Political Agendas in Serbian Public Discourse, Nadežda Silaški and Tatjana Ðurovic 16. Are Health Care Political Responses Gendered? A Case Study, Fabienne Baider and Maria Constantinou 17. “War against COVID-19”: Is the Pandemic as War Metaphor Helpful or Hurtful?, Andreas Musolff Part IV: The Discourse of Judgement and Rivalry: Blaming Other/s for the Pandemic and Comparing National Performances 18. “Chinese Virus”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S. Government Communication about COVID-19 and its Impact on Chinese and Asian Americans in the U.S., Peiwen Wang and Theresa Catalano 19. ‘Those Lunatic Zombies’: The Discursive Framing of Wuhan Lockdown Escapees in Digital Space, Janet Ho and Emily Chiang 20. Identity as Crime: How Indian Media’s Coverage Demonised Muslims as Coronavirus Spreader, Aaquib Khan 21. Media Discourse in Slovenia and in the Slovenian-Italian Cross-Border Area during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vesna Mikolic Part V: The Discourse of Empathy and Encouragement: How to Foster Solidarity among Doctors, Patients and Health Experts 22. Agency in End-of-Life Conversations during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dariusz Galasinski and Justyna Ziólkowska 23. Doctors’ Empathy and Compassion in Online Health Consultations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan, Kayo Kondo 24. “Masks aren’t Comfortable or Sexy, but…”: Exploring Identity Work on Dr Mike’s Instagram during the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kim Schoofs, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Stephanie Schnurr, Haiyan Huang and Anastasia Stavridou 25. Choosing to Stay Fit? Glocalized Ideologies of Health and Fitness during a Pandemic, Ulrike Vogl, Geert Jacobs, Karin Andersson and Jesper Andreasson 26. Unite against COVID-19: Jacinda Ardern’s Discursive Approach to the Pandemic, Marta Degani Index