The World Health Organization's Identities in COVID-19 Pandemic Narratives

• 영문명: The World Health Organization's Identities in COVID-19 Pandemic Narratives
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: 김도희(Dohee Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제30권 4호, 99~123쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.12.31

영문 초록

During the global health emergency, like the COVID-19 pandemic, people attend to organizations dedicated to international well-being. This paper aims to identify the construction of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) multiple identities attested in four identity processes: indexicality, local-occasioning, positioning, and dialogism. Identifying the organization’s identities can foster identity processes and help to understand the relationality of identities. Qualitative data from the WHO director-general’s media remarks on COVID-19 were collected and analyzed using a corpus analysis tool, AntConc. The tool allowed an investigation of word frequency, sentence structure patterns, and the use of keywords in sentences. This analysis revealed that the WHO has negotiated and presented several identities in COVID-19 situations. The results suggest that although factors such as audience and situations affect identity change, these negotiated identities are still coherent with the organization’s original identity.

목차

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE

3. METHODOLOGY

4. FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATION

5. CONCLUSION

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키워드

Identity Organization Identity Identity Process COVID-19 Health Discourse