1st Edition
Health Crisis Communication Multimodal Classification for Pandemic Preparedness
By Sheng-Hsun Lee
Copyright 2025
168 Pages
47 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
47 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Sheng- Hsun Lee develops a new way of understanding public health crisis communication through the lens of multimodal classification. He draws on examples from COVID- 19 press conferences in Taiwan and public online comments to outline multimodal classification as sorting pandemic phenomena into categorical types.
Lee argues that when public health officials classify health crisis phenomena... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The push and pull of COVID-19 classifications 3. Narrative classification 4. Numerical classification 5. Classification in mobility 6. Conclusion
Biography
Sheng- Hsun Lee is a Lecturer in School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland. He researches health communication and language acquisition. His research has been published in international journals such as Applied Linguistics and Language in Society.
